Reese Witherspoon

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

[on dual careers and marriage] Marriage and family come before everything. You don’t want to make a movie at the cost of your relationship.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that’s not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it’s a power – not being yourself, and being in the role; it’s just like another prop.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their lives. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they’re not what keeps you warm at night, or what’s ultimately the most important thing in anyone’s life journey.

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Our God is a forgiving God.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.