Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

You raze the old to raise the new.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course

Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them.

You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won’t have the same experience unless you climb yourself.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.