When the coach told me I was playing, I said: 'We're going to Brazil.' It doesn't matter how. If I'd had to score with my hand, the ball would have been in the back of the net.

I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck

You are giving me words to write and that's even better than butterflies.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.