When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

All the best days start with a latte and a time trip.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

If everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.