I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

Great brand, no resume - no problem. Great resume, no brand? Welcome to position #347 of the stack of five hundred equally great resumes

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.