My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

You never know, life is short but it’s wide

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.

Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?

But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued