I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

She opened her mouth, clamped it shut again. This was new, this sudden favor shown Gloucester, had been brought back with him from Burgundy like some malevolent foreign pox.

Love dissolves all fear, eliminates all doubt, and transforms all evil.

Greatness follows those who lead the way.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else.

Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.