It is difficult to feel things very strongly in a world wherein most of the time, the majority seem to be intoxicated and often senseless.

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others’ existence.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

People don't need to know how good you are. Just smile, just slay and just show.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

A great country ought not to make little wars.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

Teach what is inside you. Not as it applies to you, to yourself, but as it applies to the other.

Women are always beautiful.

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?