Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

The mockery towards the ignorant reflects ignorance.

You can know whatever it is that you need to know about anyone or anything or at any time, past or present, as long as you love them unconditionally.

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears.

He can't remeber who he is or where he lives." "Well that's convenient." "Not when it rains.

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.