I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate.

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.

It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.