Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart...

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.

We are all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole.

We all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole.

There are many paths to the truth. We need only the courage to tread our own path, no one else's.

A little care and a dash of creativity can transform the simplest items into great expressions of love.

It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.

...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.

Where life used to feel overcrowded, it now feels boundless as the sky. Where I used to feel shackled, I am now free to dance.

Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society.

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Our foibles, issues, lies, and idiosyncrasies are not the problem, I swear. Our hiding them is. It’s what leaves us not trusting each other and not developing ourselves to become trustworthy.

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.

They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

Last night, we were all watching Harry Potter in bed, and I thought, 'This isn't something you have when you're single, that's for sure.'

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.