All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

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.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.

The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

I don't want to be in my 'interview zone' mode. I've been doing a lot of interviews and I'm very self-aware of how I'm coming across.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

If the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back.

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

The GOP needs to live the planks of its platform, not just offer lip service.