I don't care about what people think about me.

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.

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.

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.

May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /ながらへば またこのごろや しのばれむ 憂しと見し世ぞ いまは恋しき

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Math is a very peculiar thing, for in it all numbers have a double but not all have halves.

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

Do you ever have dirty thoughts about spongebob?

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night.