Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

It is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.

She was blissfully unaware of her peril.

Learn to stand for something right even if you are the only one standing for it.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.