Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

I love my body. And if I didn't, I'd get on the Stair Master

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

The value of trust is very much like the value of dignity.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen.

Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.