The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

Meryl Streep

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

Fear focuses the mind.

Fear focuses the mind.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

Guard your good mood.

Guard your good mood.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.

Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

The work will stand, no matter what.

The work will stand, no matter what.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.

Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.