When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Family is becoming more and more important to me.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

When love is your power and imagination is your guide, nothing is impossible.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.

Good poets borrow, great poets steal