I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

The older you get, the more you've done.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.