If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.

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.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.