Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

Jenna Dewan

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Phaedrus

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

LaoTzu

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

Anna Faris

I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.

Roxy Writer

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

Paul Thomas Anderson

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

Benjamin Bratt

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

John Mayer

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Ron Reagan

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

George Bernard Shaw