Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

There is peace in play.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

She never saw the point of making fun of strangers – how could you possibly know enough about them to hit below the belt?

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.