You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

You can strike out at people, Strike off your business but you can not STRIKE down someones dreams because you can not achieve yours~bns

No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

He told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!