This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

The opportunity to work with women who are at the top of my list of people I'd want to work with and who are my favorite women to watch on screen, was fantastic.

Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

No matter how hard you try it is impossible to be grateful and depressed.

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.