If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

Being by myself, that is to say, without a man - it's been a long time - is allowing me to know what it feels like - to live in my own skin, to remember what I miss and don't miss about a relationship.