I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.

Such as the sun, let us love everyone, now feel and behold, the dance of your spirit and joy of your soul.

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing the act of work everything.

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.