I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

Here's to many more firsts and many more great memories.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

Life is supposed to be used in fulfilling our individual purposes of creation

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that!

Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.