Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

. . .the home place is the safe haven, the convergence of waters, the place where the beloved dead are as real as the living.

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

Very early in my life it was already too late.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

When I mentor, I tell people that don't have to look like a supermodel but you have got to feel your best, look your best, and be confident.

Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.