Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.

Genealogy was her favorite insanity.

My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

I think a good thing to always remember is to just keep your head on straight and don't lose your feet.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.

All I care about is that people remember me as a good skater, as someone who was innovative.

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry