As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

Think how wonderful it might be to no longer matter, Mrs. Peregrine. Think how wonderful it might be to no longer worry, struggle… or fail.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

I dont think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.