“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Love is rare, love is strange, nothing lasts and people change.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you’re a woman but loose enough to show you’re a lady

A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

Everything happens for a reason.

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.

I was a tomboy and I didn’t have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my – it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I’ve called it the re-humanisation process.

My mother is a realist, and she’s had biological and adoptive children, and she said it’s no different: No matter what, they’re putting a stranger into your arms. You don’t know them yet.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.

You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn’t you.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.