My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

I've always been extremely physically active.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.