My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means.

'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

Even in our perfection we are Broken.

The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

I've never understood why anybody makes a big deal about mansions. It's just a house with more rooms. You still have to face yourself.

Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.