Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

But the Emperor has nothing at all on!

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

How do rich people think and act?