You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.