Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

Sometimes you wonder why the only luck we have is bad luck. But you move on.

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.