A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

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.

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

What an annoying mad thing love is!

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

Giving Cristiano that much time and space on the ball is like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank

Don't fix what's not broken.