Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

...someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

Anyone can follow a crowd.It's the leader that follows the facts.

Talents are seeds of greatness. With big dreams well dispensed in form of achievements, you can pick money from people’s pockets and they will never get the guts to call you a thief.

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no

Learn today so that you may live tomorrow

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?" "Ask him where he got the boots." "You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.

I am not in the giving vein today.