The message sent is not always the message received.

We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit

Live life carefully but save time for fun.

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.

I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.