If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Don't be absent from your own life.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Courage is important but it shouldn’t be used in making impulsive decisions or taking uncalculated actions.

Nothing is born into this world without labor.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

The key to contentment was to never ask why

The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.

I'm making people that happy. How cool is that? That's my job.

A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.

Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.