Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Like everyone, I want my soul to thrum. I run my long nails over the keys like I'm scratching the back of a lover.

You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

The physical stuff of a movie is difficult. It's one of those things where it's just harder than it looks.

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.