My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Christianity is not a religion at all but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and through him a falling in love with our fellows.

Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

Vision is a conception that is inspired by God in the hearts of Human

I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shootin'