Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it enjoy it taste it smell it feel it.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.