Being a leading man. . . that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.
It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And with all the love in the world, my mom looked at me and said, 'Oh, honey, you're so funny. ' So, she doesn't lie to me. . . she answers the question by not answering and instead tells me what she thinks is my greatest strength.
I always say don't make plans, make options.
I am a creature of habit.
I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen. '
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.
Support me. . . If you don't understand me don't write about me
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. . . . The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being.