My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.

Beauty comes from the inside.

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.

Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.