You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

I've never met anyone who loves in the same way. But that's the beauty of finding the heart meant for yours. The right love will accept the 'not so lovable' parts of you too.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

Motivation is Power, Power is Motivation

We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

Never compromise and sell yourself short.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.