I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

I've got big hips and a big body. I'm double, triple the size of other models - and I embrace that - I own it.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

The Antidotal Nature of Love makes Hatred a Fallacy

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.

Prospering and living happily aren't things to wish for

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.