I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!

If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.