Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

It's never too late to love and live again. Without love in life, nothing to lose or gain.

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

America is the world's top war-master

Not every day is beautiful. But there is beauty in every day.

The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful.

Health and mony goe farre. [Health and money go far.]

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?