My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

I can't possibly get into your knickers.

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.