People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be-not what you nag them to be.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it under its roof.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

Looking good Matt, you look like a money.

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.