I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

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.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.

Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.

For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.