I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ.

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see 'Easy Rider' in a movie theater in Piccadilly Circus and had returned alone some days later to see it again. It was Jack's combination of ease and exuberance that had captured me from the moment he had come on-screen.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for.

A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.

My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will never be with someone who never laughs or someone who chews disgustingly, so if either of those things are detected on a date - it's a total deal breaker.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

I really don't follow a strict diet; I just watch my fat intake and stay away from fried foods.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.