Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

Oh, the truth I must tellIs I'm lonely as hellStill looking for myself

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

I drank my liver out.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

I really love to make movies.