My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.
Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.
What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
Teenagers are asking, 'Who am I?' and 'How do I fit in?' in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen's life than finding love.
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.
Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
Working out for me is something I do when I feel like it. But it's really about feeling good and taking care of my body rather than having to fit into any sort of model or anything like that. I try to eat well, and everything I do is really just to make me feel my best so that I can come to my job or my personal life and just feel really good.
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.
I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.
I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.
For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.
I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.
How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.
You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
I have this whole theory that whether it's in your personal life or in your business life, you have to establish a culture of generosity wherever you are.
No, I've never played baseball in my life.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.