Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

My words are within the rimBut No rim can bind my Thought.

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.