At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Don't be absent from your own life.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.

The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert we trust God or die.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Sometimes I talk, I say things, and I'm like, 'Maybe this won't happen, but I'm going to make myself believe it.'

Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

You can't get hurt skiing, unless you fall