I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Never Try To Ruin Someone.. That's Bad Karma.. Let Them Ruin Themselves The Victory Is That Much Sweeter. You Reap What You Sow!

Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.