People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

That's what I meant, ' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

Cheerfulness is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.