Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

There's a little blackness inside all of us.

If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

Her hands reach out for intangible dreams as dust motes dance in the spectrum of light across one corner of the room.

Definition is a choice.

I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.

You do not choose what your mission is; it will come to you when you are ready!

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

One must take what comes, with laughter.

Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.