My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.

If you don't go and do something in life, nothing happens.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend - not extravagantly, but always in fashion.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

reach for the stars because even if you fall there are always the clouds to catch you

No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

The Point of Power Is in the Present.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.