Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Let the path be open to talent.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I have wondered about time all my life.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

America is another name for opportunity.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Forgotten is forgiven.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.