Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower, which must be cautiously cared forand protected, from the harsh elementsof "human weather.

Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.

I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.

You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.