Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.
I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.
My gut tells me everything I need to know.
An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.
That’s the problem with heartbreak, to you it’s like an atomic bomb but to the world it’s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable moments that united this country. It makes everyone feel relieved. Then because of economic stress, political shifts, we get wrenched apart again. I think it's cyclical. I am an optimist by nature. There are moments, the period after 911, the way we responded. The election of Barack Obama. There are moments where the country felt good about being American. I'm waiting for that to happen again.
The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.