All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles.

If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.

I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

You can't be afraid to play. Commit to play and you live with the results.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'