Women who have power are always feared.

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.

If anyone tells you that something can't be done, they're correct, but it only pertains to them.

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.

You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.