I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

Don't believe everything you read.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

I still love red velvet cake.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

I absolutely love being a mother.

...if life never changed, there would be no room for good things that are still to happen.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

Too marvelous for words.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.