I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels.

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

I just feel like I'm in the world right now. There have been times when I haven't felt in the world, when I haven't cared whether I was going to be here or not, so my relationship with being on the earth was probably not as intense. And right now, there's an intensity - I want to be here.

I've just always been interested in how people lead their lives. How they survive in this world. I'm curious about people's damage, and navigating that and the way people forgive. I find it really interesting. That's why we have to transform on a daily basis, work on ourselves. It's work.