My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

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

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.