We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

Find what is beautiful in a person and appreciate it. Ignore what is wrong.

In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

If there's one thing worse than being really angry for no reason, it's suddenly remembering the reason.

The world order needs a major overhaul.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.