Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you.

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

When you feel like you've given all you've got! You gotta take one more step!

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.