I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

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.

We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.