I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.

When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts.

In the midst of the adversity, we can still strive by the grace of God

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.

When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.

Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.

Not everyone can march, but everyone can talk. And everyone can reach out, and everyone can vote.

One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.