I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.

I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

The race we are in is a race against the disappearing life.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.