HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.

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.

All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

I have limited experience, but I know this: moments of connection with another human being are patently rare. But rarer still are those who can recognize such a connection when they see one.

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.