I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.

You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.

Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.

People feel like they know you when you're in their living room, weekly, for five years. But I always get uncomfortable when people know more about me than I know about them.

It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.