We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you.

He was painfully aware of the fact that he was in his underwear. Not the best situation in which to fight people.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

Life is a cycle of ends and starts.

I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.