I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.

I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.

I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

Its just a crime that people dont take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if its bothering them that much.

Did you know that if you visualise you can actually hug on the phone

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Everyone has a mobile phone with a camera; every phone can record video. You have to be prepared to be captured. It's very easy to be misconstrued and presented in ways that you wouldn't prefer. If I take a selfie with bags under my eyes, it becomes a hashtag.

There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're doing very well, so keep doing whatever you are doing.' They should be asking what their patient is doing and pass the information to other patients.

A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox.

I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

When there's a war, people get married.

You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: Salvation is all of the grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of man.

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.

I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can't fix a time for it. Please don't predict it for me.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I don't pitch for contracts.

I couldn't stand not controlling my own product from how it's manufactured to how it's sold.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Each movie I make has its own heroes, and the two heroes for me in 'Arrival' are Amy Adams and Joe Walker, the editor. We worked very, very hard, and it was, by far, the longest editing process.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.