Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

You raze the old to raise the new.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Don't tell me that I can't do it. Go and tell God that story. After all, He is the one who gave me the air to breath and be able to do it well! Go!

May you always remember the Beloved is your divine and sacred self.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.