Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

With my simple writings I want to change the mindset of humanity so that they themselves can create a positive new world where they can live with dignity and peace.

Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

You learn how to persevere... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit.