When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence

But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them

Darkness lingered in those blue eyes, like ghosts haunted him despite only the two of them standing in this cabin.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

Here is the one truth you know for sure: there is no truth for sure.

If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I can do, Just call on me, And I'll send it along with love from me to you.

The atonement of Jesus Christ is the only remedy and rest for my soul.

Love the questions, themselves.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.