We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Denial is the worst kind of lie...because it is the lie you tell yourself.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

What I want is to be number one.

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

To learn etiquette is actually learning how to see others and respect them.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

I'm very competitive. When I was, like, four, I would see a Shake 'N Bake commercial and see a little girl on that and think, 'I can do that. I might be better.'

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.

It's not unusual for me to wake up in the middle of the night and not know where I am. I take sleep medication to deal with all the flights. But I find it helps to eat at the same time every day.