You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

Reaching the finish line isn't possible without beginning the first step of the journey. Start today, don't wait.

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.