My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

A disloyal friend is no friend.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.

I don't have a Twitter account.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

We don't want any pot-smoking vaginas because that's disgusting. And I saw it once in Indonesia, and I've never been able to get it out of my head.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

Take life one day at a time because every day is a different day with new challenges.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.