Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

Fashion says 'Me too', and style says 'Only me'.

When you can't afford to hire the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!

Act without expectation.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times.