I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.

A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's

While GOP elites say they're shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump's religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled up in their party.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.