...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth." "How can you be sure?" "Because she'd do the same for you.

Develop Self-confidence, then love will fol­low; it will come naturally from within. And that way the love will be pure.

You only live once, so live a good life!

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do