It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.

I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?

...I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.