Unfortunately I never learnedhow to touch my truth without breaking it.

I trust the man, much less the men, not at all the crowd.

My meanness has an ego too, often bigger than my own.

We not only don’t have fun with what we are supposed to enjoy, but whatever we don’t enjoy has started having fun with us.

Create a tomorrow that has more than just one day in it.

Don’t ask me to distance myself from the person I cannot become.

How will I ever learn to forget what I can no longer delete?

Living one floor below Paradise.

I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear.

I am the product of any imperfection of mine I have never used to make my life better.

The only thing that is stronger than what I fear is what I believe in.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.

I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in China and so it was an outrage basically.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.