One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

Do you pray for our world or just your world? If all your prayers were answered, would it change our world or just your world?

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Thank God for Heaven! - That's where everything will get straightened out and made right!

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

Reality is not optional.