When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.

When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta .

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

I'm a little bit of a control freak.

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.