"We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there's nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless."

“All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.”

“There's no political point worth my son's life.”

“In cooking I found my mentor in this great chef, Albert Roux. I think this is a very important thing in life, to find someone who can steer you because to find it all by yourself is quite a difficult and slow process. That's not to say you won't ever get there, but to find a great coach, a great mentor, someone to show you the way and to open a few windows and doors, is a wonderful thing in life.”

“A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.”

Source : "The Divine Sisterhood of Jada Pinkett Smith". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. June 11, 2013.

“What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.”

“I like to joke that Inhofe is as far left as I'll go for an employer.”

“Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.”

“We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.”