You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.

You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.

You can't change conditions - just the way you deal with them.

I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.

A poem is a ‘line’ between any two points in creation.

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

Never apologize for being yourself.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.