I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

When I look in the mirror, what do I see? I see a strong, independent, working woman who is very much in love and very happy with the reflection in that mirror.

After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.

Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Fact is fact

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

courage is the gift of character

The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement.

I always love China, especially the old China.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.