I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that "yourself" - (g swiss)

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

I don't do farm animals. Can't stand hay in your leathers? Or wool in my teeth.

I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.

What did you do today to receive your instruction?

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.