I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.

If Jesus isn't enough for the church, why would he be enough for the world?

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.

Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

Discrimination is a disease.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area