I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

My whole life is a theater piece.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

What is true belongs to me!

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Money does not change people, people change.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.