If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish

If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.

Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

I really love Natalie Portman; she's the real deal.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.