Simplicity makes me happy.

Still when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an 'S' on my chest Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

I always heard that I was too small.