"Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light."

“The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.”

“Whenever I get to talk to young girls like me I always say, 'The only difference between you and I is that I know that I'm special and you just don't know that you are yet.'”

“On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.”

“Labels are for cans, not people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I don't want to take all the time. I just want to do what you wrote and let me go from there. I don't want to miss something. You know, I'm not really a writer per se, but I can write. But I can't put a script together like they can.”

Source : "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“All perishes, all decays, all is born again.”

Source : Leonid Andreyev (1911). “King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden”

“You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.”