Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

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.

Don’t complain. Be a good person in this wrong world and transform it.

It is only upon life’s new journey & pathway that your greatest learning - will be experienced.

Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them.”“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me...

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I won't remember?

I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"