“Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.”

Now is the time for guts and guile.

I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions.

Big girls need big diamonds.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

The things that are important to me – being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist – are all things that were borne out of great passion.

Everything makes me nervous – except making films.

I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.

I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don’t need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.

I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.

I’ve never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I’m here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

I want it all quickly ’cause I don’t want God to stop and think and wonder if I’m getting more than my share.

Money is the best deodorant.

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.

You can’t choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else’s mouth is a reflection of their heart … not yours.

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.

You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.