The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to wholly the magnificence of Christ.

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.