You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.