She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT. Make an IMPACT".

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

When you take out a loan, what's your obligation other than paying it back? You have no other obligation.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight