The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe.

There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

Youth has no age.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.