If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

Whoever we understand, we love.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.