When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.

You know what I realized? No one else lives in my memories but me.

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.

Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

I stood in the isle thinking about my future, while the man next to me complained, but when I asked him what his dream was he never answered.

All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.

Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in 'Annie Laurie', but I can't recall that it helped much.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.