When I was in my 20s I wasn't sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don't have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I'm going to get back up.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

I would prefer not to.

When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to stand out and be your uniquely beautiful and talented self.

You’ll be dethroned faster than a coke snorting beauty queen.

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit, And look on death itself!

People will always make comparisons.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."

It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities.