We are all more similar than we usually realize.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.

Most people spend their whole lives waging war—against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Be who you are and say what you feel, but if you can't handle, then you sure as hell don't deserve, darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.

I do believe there's life other than on our planet.

I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.