When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer, even if we’ve been raised that

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

The truth really does set you free — but what they don’t tell you is the process hurts like hell.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.

I believe only in what I do not see.

I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.