Шn Hollywood actresses say they can't go above a size 6. I think everybody is operating in this huge bubble of fear. I don't think the world will come crashing down on you if you're a size 8.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence

The price of your salvation was too high and so is the price of your calling

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

There's no one to stop you but yourself

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.