I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish

My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.