My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.' That's the mantra I keep trying to tell myself, 'I'm doing the best I can.'

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.

The business of the dead belongs to the living.

Revived spirit, restored strength.

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to.

God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

The shadows of twilight grow, And the tiger’s ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow.