Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid more real more substantial and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result good or bad to what you have been committed to.

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

My grandpa taught me how to live off the land.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Life, as I see it, is R-rated.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate.

I don't need to try so hard to be someone else.

You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.

The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it thinking, 'How will I help other people? What will the book do to touch lives?'

My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.

The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.

Of the blessings you discover in your life none are any greater than the other.Each has equal value in and of itself to be appreciated for what it is.

Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.

Transformation does not start with someone else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be.

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.