“Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most ...”

“I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.”

“It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'qu...”

“In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.”

“I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday.”

“I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, a...”

“The thin line between life and death is still under construction.”

“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it but it takes brains to build a house. ”

“The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built ...”

“I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.”

“Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.”

“I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.”