I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

Every ever you are, you can shine!

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

When we are made right with God, we begin to think right, we begin to talk right, and we begin to act right.

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.