I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.

I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

I think there's an innocence to me.

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.

Fear mediocrity, not failure.

There's always someone who is trying to help.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Never Google yourself. Seriously, don't!

I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.