Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Sometimes it's our darkest moments that make us shine.

And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

I'm actually most comfortable when I'm in a bikini, running around on the beach, like, no makeup. It's really free-feeling, whereas I'm always having to get dressed up and putting makeup on.

Transformed people transform cities.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins.