You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

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.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.