To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

While there's life, there's fear.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich