When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

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.

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.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.