What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.

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.

It's much more efficient to build on a head-strong teen than to fix a broken-spirited adult.

I fell in love... she caused a type of smile within me that nothing else can or has.

Etiquette tip: If you're looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, "No one leaves here alive, " that's your cue.

Harder still was the pretense her studies demanded: the need to dissemble, to parrot her professors' orthodoxies, to feign interest in theories that were of no use to her.

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

World change comes from within.

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.