My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Modeling isn't boring.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

That's a headache waiting to happen.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.