I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.

The media's job is to serve as society's referee, throwing down truth flags when uninformed bigots are shouting their opinions into the wind.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.