Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

She had a wild, wandering soul but when she loved, she loved with chaos and that made all the difference.

By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.

I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.

I am a competitor, I want to go out there and lay it all on the line for my team.

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.