It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

Even a chameleon needs the proper amount of suction.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.