You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

True friends don't send sms, they give a phone call.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.