Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

Strategy is worthless unless you can act on it.

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.