Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows.

Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts.

Oh, let me love with all my power all the way.Let me love like stars love the moon rest of my day.

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

I don't seek, I find.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.