"There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous."

“It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.”

“I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.”

Source : "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

“Everyone's quick to blame the alien.”

“I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.”

Source : Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation

“When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.”

“Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.”

“It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.”

“There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds”