Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.

Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

When he opens his mouth to speak, I place a finger on his

So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

I'm really more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of a girl.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.