It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

Bachelor parties are for the married guys.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing

Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.

On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.