Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.

I tell myself that this is okay, but I realize that I don’t have to. This is what I want. Him. Me. Closer

Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.

once, a boy told a girl : i will stay with you forever, little did she know that his forever is only three months because..he died of cancer!

I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.

Sometimes home is full of new possibilities, you just have to look or change how you look.

you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

Surely, that's what interns were invented for?

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.