What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

You are my angel.

God grant us patience!

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.