Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

When you love someone, you’re capable of more than you know.

That's not fair!" Charlotte said."I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.

Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence.

Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

An ait a bhfuil do chroi is ann a thabharfas do chosa thu.(your feet will bring you to where your heart is.)

A lot of people say I'm like a pop girl, but I don't know what that means.

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.