The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Until slow and steady could win the race, being fast and speedier can bring no further grace

Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.

An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.