I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

Give your mind permission to travel where the body cannot go and be open to all the wisdom that the universe has to offer.

Our story may have any number of endings, but it begins with a singular choice we make today

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I dont let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.