I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise

Segregation has no place in the education system.

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.

When I wake up, I always drink tons of Guayaki organic yerba mate tea.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.