Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.

The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be, some earlier, some later.

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...

Leaders today should be more conductors than solo artists.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold and we call that an epidemic threshold.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what.