If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

I have no boyfriend. No time. None send me over the moon, so I just kind of do my thing.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

The state of Michigan going to Trump was an amazing thing. Of course the fake news media was shocked; they never considered that white working class residents of Michigan may not like being called evil racists clinging to guns and Bibles.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable.

The two times I had nervous breakdowns in my life were when I graduated from college and had my first kid.

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

When its time to go off to work, or work out, I have a great support system: a great nanny and friends who offer to help out whenever they can.

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes,

I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.

As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us.

It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.