My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.

Truth is after you've put out all the INFO to your Soldiers in formation they'll soon forget what you said but will never forget what you did behind those words.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

The deal looks bad and smells worse.

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip