You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am, ’ to me before Igave him ID.”“It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

Embracing weakness echoes resilience.

... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's human!

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

[Adolf Hitler] was Austrian, so he knew how to play that role [being capable of apologizing]. In fact, it wasn't playacting, it was just part of who he was. He hated to see women cry or women upset.

Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.