Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior.

I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.