I've been through really trying experiences personally, and your family is who you turn to.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them because they're busy updating them.

Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

What's talked about is a dream, What's envisioned is exciting, What's planned become possible, What's scheduled is real.

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.