Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

...someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers to disregard the materiality of power relations.

I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source material. It's really important.

I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.

The history of skiing is important to me.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?

People who lack material wealth, who are poor, won't be very happy. They will be obsessed with meeting their bills at pay day. And people who have an abundance of material goods are often not happy.

I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.