A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. Because if you stay in your comfort zone, you would never do the things that you need to do.

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine.

Battles are won by those who never give up the fight.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.