I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.

Beauty comes from the inside.

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

All children are my children.

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.