Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure.
Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.
The worse that could happen has already happened to me.
I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true.
I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.
I've done an awful lot of trying to make everybody else okay and happy. I have learned, now it would really be ok to wait for someone who wants to be there for me and partner with me and I'm really looking forward to it.
Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.