I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

If you want to be seen, stand up.If you want to be heard, speak up.If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Keep dreaming because your dream will be the message that brings change to the others.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

Life is a movie, let love play its role.