I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Love is not what you say; love is what you do

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

My own growth is a part of a group evolution, definitely. It does feel as if the changes in the group are meant to be, and that I am not as much a catalyst, so to say, but rather a result of this.

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.