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 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

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

A stumble is not a fall.

Its important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

An old ox makes a straight furrow.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

My fan mail is what keeps me going.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Do what you're passionate about.

As a kid, I had to be funny.

Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Nobody heeds danger when theyre making money.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.