Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Experience teaches us when to wait and when to move forward.

I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

Perm in your hair or even a curly weave, Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve. I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,' Cause brothers been popping that game all day.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.