Rachel quotes:

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.

This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.

You can't send a girl in to do what a lady can do.

From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible?

B*tches come and go but friends are for real.

Desiring is a part of dreaming.

I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus, I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put in me. If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.

you will I trust find heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

I find myself very, very happy to be a weird writer.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.

I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.

I won't be labeled as average.

I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul

I'd rather live at the bottom of a well than leave Avonlea.

In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.

It's a trifle. It's got all of these layers. First there's a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!

It's important for me to be immersed in all cultures. I'm an actress.

Love isn't how well you know someone, it is how they make you feel.

Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.

This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.

Those who don't love themselves as they are rarely love life either.

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?