I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

we have an opportunity to do great thing in this world.

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

On Wall Street, there is no "Wall Street"; there are individuals.

Sometimes when I read Scripture, I'm trying to learn something or teach something or change something in my life.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.