"We all have something that centers us in our lives. That linchpin is something that when we don't do enough of it, we start to feel off center."

“If you'll never leave me, I'll never leave you.”

Source : Jane Rogers (2001). “Island”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.”

“Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.”

“Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.”

Source : "Mama's Boy". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 4, 2008.

“Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.”

“No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.”

“But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear”

“I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.”