Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).