It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free

If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority

Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see –

People never forget two things, their first love and their first day in New York City

I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts; breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Freedom is not for the weak.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

That's what my life has come down to - how can I have fun for me, be with my friends and my family, and how can I help other people.

I have studied at the school of the world.

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.

I am successful in my daily life.

When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it's the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you're like, 'Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.'

Even without a kiss this moment is perfect and you wouldnt trade it for anything.

As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.

The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.