Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.