Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

I love you, Vic! Anything else is lies. I really, truly love you. I’ll love you until the day I die.

I'm on the last great journey here--and people ant me to tell them what to pack.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.