The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

I've got big hips and a big body. I'm double, triple the size of other models - and I embrace that - I own it.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.

A simple thought can transform you forever. So cultivate beautiful thoughts, ugliness never.

I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.

Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you're hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you're doing.

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.