I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.

There is no love in bullying the weak. There is no love in bullying the strong.

To be wise, know yourself.

In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all these reasons, the helots hated the Spartans bitterly.

Anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

I think that Donald Trump picked on people's fears, their anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame, and some folks just really turned out for him for that.

I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.

The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.