I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.

Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.

The future of business is social.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

All men begin their learning with Homer.