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

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

You think you’re being broken but you’re really being broken open…and that’s where the healing happens, in those broken places…if you’ll allow it.

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I’d learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn’t start to get that until I turned 60.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Your scent is one I want to know for the rest of my life.

I didn’t have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn’t want to. But I didn’t think they’d pick one I didn’t like.

I ain’t lookin down but I see no one above me.

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

Everything is possible at any one competition.

Life is about strategy not tragedy. Make the best one.