I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'.

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with] both parties, it's beyond belief.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.