I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

I want people to know that blood tests alone won't always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

Today I'm a more solid, grounded person, positioned to encourage women. I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.

We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

Five acts - humility, gratitude, vegetarianism, yearning, and crying - get you "It". Have you tried it?

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Playing my drums is therapy.