Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

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.

I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before.' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

But I'm a patient, so I have to focus on recuperation

Tonight I will take back what is mine.

How many nights are we here?" Cassie asked. "Six? So we need what, 20 bottles?

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

anger is more productive than fear.

I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?