I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.

I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

I have been photographed to death.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.