Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

I do not hurt people, they just make me do it.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

I haven't had any plastic surgery - despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don't think of that as plastic surgery any more.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.