We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

There's a little blackness inside all of us.

If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.

Once you see the good in someone, it's hard not to notice the good in everyone.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

That Science thing "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" Well this is not true if you hit someone much bigger then you.

We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

We have so much patience with ourselves, why not borrow some of that and use it on others.

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.