When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

My ambition is to be happy.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

Singing diminishes sorrow.

It is never hard to convince a man of something he already wants to believe

Politics for me started in violence.

There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Satguru knows that there is no death to the disciple. Atma never dies. Even after death he continues to get direction on the path