The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful.

Don’t be so vain to think that you ruined me, that you wrecked me, destroyed me.I am the only one who has the power to do that.—Amanda Helm,

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

I have a really good family. I'm lucky to have people who support me and love me in my life.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.