I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

Being 5' 10", I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

I would play football, because I love it.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.