"That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me."

"I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds."

"I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10."

"I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'"

"My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy."

"My private life is private."

"What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life."

"I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'"

"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."

"I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men"

"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne"

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."

"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."

"The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general."

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."

"We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives."

"Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into."

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"

"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog."