Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

You have to have a little faith in people.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

The fact I want...no, I need for us to be exclusive until we part ways when we head off to college

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.