Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

Don't think about any poor man, just think he deserves it.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

Our larger goal is to tell the story

I'm very much open to the possibilities.

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.