I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

God performs wonders beyond description.

If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief .

Also if they choose from more options than fewer options they're less satisfied with what they choose and that is true whether they're choosing chocolates or which job offer to accept.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.