Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?

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.

Do you have any idea how frightening it is to care for someone who dreams? They infect you with their optimism. And soon you start to dream together. You begin to dare to hope.

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!

I understand your actions more than your conversations.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

Erasers remind us there is no faultless human.

I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff.