Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined

I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.

Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.