Your vulnerability is your power.

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

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

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

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

I'd much rather be a one-hit wonder than a phony.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!