It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.

Bravery is an amazing and aggressive teacher. Its gives me the energy to dive into life, recover from disappointment, and mentally escape whatever locked door holds me in.

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Suffering has a noble purpose.

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security.

The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

Vogue' is the best of everything that fashion can offer, and I think we point the way. We are, you know, a glamorous girlfriend.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" [translated literally as the strange duck in the pond. In other words, an outsider].

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Mister, we deal in lead.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.