From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

If I'm known as the girl that lost weight and it's been six years later and I've still kept off the 110 pounds, God bless. Because I never kept off 100 pounds before in my life.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

It's time for you to know who you are

I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.

It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.