Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

Because of the person I am I won't be knocked down — ever. They can say I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm whatever, and I'll never stop. I just won't. I've got too much to do. I've too much to be happy about.

I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

Whatever you desire is possible. You only need to begin dreaming.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

I want to collaborate. I'm a big believer in collaboration.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Good things, when short, are twice as good.