A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything’s mixed. There’s no absolute good and there’s no absolute evil. There’s just a lot of confusion.

It only wakes up the burning desire I always feel whenever I'm close to this man and the shadows of my fears back away. — Skye

How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.