We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

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

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.

Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

you're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse.

A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.

I love domestic life.

Success comes from believing in you when no one believes in you.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.