You can decide your own fate. Are you going to let it all fall apart? Or are you going to own it?

SINGER-SONGWRITER PATTI SMITH

My wife is very much a smart normal person, who spends time with her amazing friends from college. You don't see her running around to parties.

CHOREOGRAPHER BENJAMIN MILLEPIED, on being married to actress Natalie Portman

If you're not happy to embrace contradictions, you're not going to get very far in understanding anything.

ACTRESS VANESSA REDGRAVE, on being a church-going Marxist