No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

I wished for someone to hold me up. Suddenly someone was there.

Some things you cannot stop happening.

Some things are more than we can understand.

Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.

..there are two possible endings to every story.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.