"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."

"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."

"I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood."

"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."

"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father."