You do your best work when you feel safe.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.

We stand not as victims, but rather to bear witness to the gender injustices present in our lives and in our world as a whole.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.