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

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

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

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

What do you do on daily basis to feed your mind with positive and empowering thoughts?

I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.