This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us.

Style is art and fashion is everything. Personal expression should reflect the best of who you are and respected without being misunderstood.

This shall hence become my music.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it. I don't just float around and wait for some muse to call.