It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Don't be absent from your own life.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').

I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.