You have got to love yourself first. You have got to be ok on your own before you can be ok with somebody else. You have got to value yourself and know that you are worth everything.

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.

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We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.