Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Love is a complete mystery in the lives of many because they keep expecting it to come from others to them.

I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

I feign no hypotheses.

I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.

I love family. In this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], my character is a successful OB-GYN and yet she goes back to her teenage years when she's with her parents. Like, that's me.

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy.