I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'

I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave.

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

I feel like everybody knows the world isn't the happiest, most peaceful place. And though everybody has an idea of what's wrong, we're not changing it for the better.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.