I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

We dont know Gods plan, but we do know were pretty blessed and God expects us to do something with that.

I just think that humans were created to look upward

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

Entrepreneurship is all about energy

As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!

I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.

I was a very sad little girl.

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.

You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer.