My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

Compost makes houseplants very happy.

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

This is the miracle of all miracles—when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out.

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.