You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

Success is living life with all of its songs and melodies, triumphs and tragedies.

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.