“Truth is beautiful. Truth requires courage. You have to be courageous to admit the truth and to find the truth and to hear the truth. And to accept the trusth. It all requires courage, beyond your body.”

In every great challenge this country has faced, it has turned to the essential strength of its people, united around a common goal.

I'd like to think that thanks to me, women athletes be themselves. They can play with aggression and pump their fists. They can wear what they want and say what they want and kick butt and be proud of it all.

Serena Williams in her remarks confirming her decision to retire from tennis

I knew there would be scrutiny against me if I competed as a woman. I was prepared for that. But I also don't need anybody's permission to be myself and to do the sport that I love.

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in an interview on being the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division 1 title.

“If life doesn’t give you a door climb out of a window.”

To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation: we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all, and to fight for equal rights for women in America.

I do not believe - and I know this is a horrible thing to say - but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn’t love you, and he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country…with all our flaws, we’re the most exceptional country in the world. I’m looking for a presidential candidate who can express that, do that, and carry it out.

Listen to yourself, and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.