Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.

No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet, when I wanted to run, shout, jump, fly.

Embody the Unique Value Proposition through a consistent brand system

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.