When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)

Shy, what is it? I say it is intrigued by pride and hesitated by a feeling of being unworthy.

Surround yourself with people who move you, motivate you and mobilize you.

To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.

I still don't know how to read music.

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.