As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I think I can bring tremendous leadership.

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.