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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

There is nothing you can control about love.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.