If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

Only in failure do you reach success. You can only get to the good stuff when you've done the hard stuff.

When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong there.

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

Being active and good health is the most important beauty regime because that will affect you for the rest of your life.

I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything.

You have to know what you need. You need someone who's going to really push you hard. But they also need to understand that, emotionally, sometimes today's not the day to push so hard.

You don't wear stuff for other people; you've got to wear it for yourself.

The reason I trust so much is that I don't feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don't keep any secrets.

Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.