This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me.

Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes, that was my biggest.

The hero is the one who goes beyond his ability to improve his skills, until he becomes able to improve, and perhaps even alter, the skills of others.

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.