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

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 biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

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

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

The truth was this: Love is a decision.

Love affords you these three things: smiles, hugs, and kisses. Joy affords you these three things: pleasure, laughter, and good memories.

Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.

When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.

I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

At 26, I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

What is good hair? It can be anything to anyone. Good hair is healthy hair, whatever you perceive that to be.

Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.