1. “If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.”
2. “Some people are filled by compassion and desire to a good and some simply don’t think anything’s going to make a difference.”
3. “If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.”
4. “The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.”
5. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials”
6. “Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.”
7. “There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.”
8. “Empathy is at the heart of the actor’s art.”
9. “We are the choices we have made.”
10. “Pretending is a very valuable life skill.”
11. “Fear focuses the mind.”
12. “The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.”
13. “True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.”
14. “Ehat makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.”
15. “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
16. “People have to make their own decisions about their lives.”
17. “Instant gratification is not soon enough.”
18. “Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.”
19. “Sometime it’s easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.”
20. “Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.”
