I'm doing this for me.

Work hard and be authentic. Everything else will fall into place.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.

Humility is not weakness but a quality of strength.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.'

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.