The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.