No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

Think street, train sport.

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

The Democrats of today, they don't care about the past, other than look at aspects of it they hate.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.