Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

When I meditate in the morning, it really changes my day and my relationship with my day.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.

It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

If wise are allowed to think

Strong minded people control their propensity.Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.

I believe in Governor Romney. I believe in him as a leader.

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.