"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life."

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."

"Love the giver more than the gift."

"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."

"One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live."

"This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life."

"On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott."

"To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up."