"The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people."

“Guts win more games than ability.”

“Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.”

“Ditch the dream and be a doer.”

Source : "Shonda Rhimes ’91, Commencement Address". Dartmouth Commencement Speech, www.dartmouth.edu. June 8, 2014.

“The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.”

“Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.”

“strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.”

“Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.”

Source : "Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press". Speech in the House of Representatives, November 07, 1997.

“The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.”