The deeper you dig, the bigger the possibility that something could happen.

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

I'm an extremist. Either I'm being healthy and organic, or I want a big, juicy In-N-Out burger, I want it all now! It sure makes me happy.

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.

Our biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity.

Enlightenment doesn’t make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn’t erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us.

I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.