Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen

The line between sacred and secular is man-made.

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.

Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

[People] look at [Donald Trump] not prosecuting Hillary [Clinton] as maybe, uh-oh.