Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

We all accept too easily that life has to be hard and forget to make sure we have the most fun we can.

The best advice I ever got when I was starting out: Never give up. And I never did.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

The only thing we can do is honestly learn from our falls.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

Love is something that if you give it away, you end up having more.