I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

There are no twin souls in God's universe.

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.