I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself. And I'm very proud to say that.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

being is one day and a million nights. the blood on the glass, blood lust with the sun holding. the universe beats for the lost and found. with you.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I am a conservative because I know that no one of us is better than any other one of us.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.