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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Earlier in my career, I was much more super-sharey. There were moments when I wanted to process things that were happening to me more privately, and I didn't have the space to do it, because once you let people in, they're in, and you don't get to say, 'Oh, I want this for myself.'

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.