Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

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.

The passionate heart touches the sky. The meditative mind enters it.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

I didn't realize it until now, but I don't really know anything about them, or what kind of people they are, really. You can't see inside a person's heart.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.