Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.

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.

Women are the most powerful and beautiful power in the world.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

In an age of immediacy the idea of waiting sounds hopelessly outdated. But that said, there is something to be said about anticipation...

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween... don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.