I would play football, because I love it.

I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

Being 5' 10", I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?

If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.

Only evil in this world is the one in your brain.

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.

Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.

I don't know what to say, except I love Ryan Dunn and I'm really going to miss him.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.