Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

I've got big hips and a big body. I'm double, triple the size of other models - and I embrace that - I own it.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

If we want to survive this economic collapse, new mandatory school subjects should be eCommerce, Chinese, spirituality and aesthetics.

There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse of the Father.

The first step my son which one makes in the world is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?