You can be beautiful, kind and, also, strong. Strength can be shown in very many ways besides a sword or bow.

When you have a good heart, kindness becomes a responsibility you take up.

The will, we have, is a very strong force. If we set our minds to get to a goal and focus intensely on it, it’s hard for anything to get in the way.

We’re seastnan, we live to protect, sometimes we die and I can’t think of a better way to go than fighting for someone I love.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

I've come to really believe that I have something to offer as a filmmaker, that goes beyond what I had to offer as an actress and maybe this is what I'm meant to do.