.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

Screw every known human culture.

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character