Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

No matter how strong you plan to be, you can never subdue the pain that comes with the grudges you refuse to let go.

Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.