I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

The bravest thing you will ever do is love again.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

It sure is hell to be president.

I remember, with the third [Twilight] movie, when we went to Munich and the entire Olympic stadium was filled with fans. We walked in there and did nothing.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

So don't blame me for the problems. You can't fault me for it. You can't blame me. You want to blame me but I'm just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it.

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.