"I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second."

"Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women."

"I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true."

"I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous."

"Wisdom principle 10 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 42."

"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I bear a charmed life."