Meditation, prayer and positive thinking are a great combination for making your mind your best friend.

If you say yes when you mean no, you are not being authentic, or true to yourself, to who you really are. You are not living your life, you are trying to fit in with someone else's.

Listen to your heart. It will lead you to a person you are looking for.

Hatred doesn’t need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs companions. Love alone is daunted. Love together is unbound and unrestricted.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

I've spent hundreds of days on commercial sets in the last ten years. If I didn't learn something along the way, I wasn't paying very close attention.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.