I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.

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.

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

It's not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it's your failure to realize the importance of prayer.

Allow your daily small acts of kindness to degenerate into a lifetime of human excellence.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

My friends said, 'You're crazy, enjoy single life.' But that's not for me.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.