Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?

We don't get to see ourselves the way the Lord sees us, but we can choose to believe what He says about us.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a lot of politicians the consequence is 63 government change in 70 years.