I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

I understood from an early age what being competitive means.

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

I don't stay anywhere. I visit. I observe. I leave. I don't ever stay.

I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.

You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

April's rare capricious loveliness.

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.