My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation.  For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

Love is easy, and I love writing.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.