Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important..

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older,….

Time is what creates trust..

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense..

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always….

Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything..

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind o….

Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your….

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special..

Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another ke….

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fu….

The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is….

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit..

If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I do….

I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were….

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are..

You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person..

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time..

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome..

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would..

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want..