I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully

Find things that shine and move toward them.

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.