I like the physical challenge. It's fun for me.

We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Yep, there's special eyes that only Jesus can give. When people have special eyes, they can see past a person's face and show other people love.

If you want to do something, you find a way.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.