I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

Don't believe everything you read.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

I still love red velvet cake.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

I absolutely love being a mother.

A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.