My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

The two toughest lessons to learn In life are “LET GO” & “LETs GO..!

Have you found your Christmas spirit yet? he asked as they drove by Broslin Square. The decorations were out of control. "This place would make Liberace feel underdressed.

When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.