I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

You have to be resilient.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.

You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.