Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

There's a little blackness inside all of us.

If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.

Once you see the good in someone, it's hard not to notice the good in everyone.

Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: "I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.

Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.