My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO

Think about the most important things in life and set hard boundaries to protect them.

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart!

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work