I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth from trembling to triumphing.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.