The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.