It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

When I meditate in the morning, it really changes my day and my relationship with my day.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.

Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....

You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.

Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

Beautiful thoughts, build a beautiful soul.