I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Boredom is a great motivator.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. It's strength will fade

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

When you're filming something, you have marks and spots you have to be in.

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.