Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.