I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

A highly paid, highly motivated employee who is not allowed to work with his full potential is like a Ferrari which is not allowed out of the garage.

Give a man your attentionLose hisIgnore a manGain his attention

...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...

genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration

Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.

My approach to the races hasn't changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.

I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.