When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't change it for the world - I love what I learn every single day.

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

I love my shoulders; they're strong. I like the way they move, and I like the way they look in clothes.

I have two children, and they know that I never pass up a piece of cake, ever.

So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery.

Love is all there is. That I know to be absolutely true.

I never had a career before I had the lips, so my lips have had their own career!

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

Everything in my life has been challenging but rewarding.

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!

God is only where you let Him in

There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth.

Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it, ' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise.

I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."

My characters are not plastic.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.