We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.

We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive.

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

Reading... a vacation for the mind.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

You don't have to solve every problem at once.

Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.