Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

I believe in numbers and signs.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

Perhaps people hate because it's more difficult to love. It also takes more courage to do the latter.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.