The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.

I know a beautiful soul when I feel one. The empath in me honors the authentic in you.

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.