You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

It's shocking the things we call love.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

Never quit on your one and only dream !!!

The heart dances with joy when you're sharing.

Grown ups’ could learn a lesson from watching cartoons.

Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.

God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

After 'Muriel's Wedding, ' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

But puberty was... well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know?

We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.