I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it.

Let the stars guide you to your sacred-path.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

Bahrain is moving at one pace, Morocco another, Qatar at another, Kuwait at yet another. And we are there to assist our friends.

I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts.

I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.