Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

Opening Ceremony is my number one favorite place to shop here. It's the only place I'll shop in New York with my son. All of the sales people are so cool; the music is great; it's just like a big fun house, so he stays entertained.

My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.

You get educated by traveling.

Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.