As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.

The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words.

It’s easy to thank God and to be happy when you live a sheltered life and have no concept of suffering

It's more important to be read than paid.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

Women are never at ease when they have ideas.

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly

When fans start screaming when they see me it makes my heart smile.