Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

There remains unique questions calling for a unique mission like yours to answer – and that is your key to significance. Find them and be the answer.

Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

The biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there