“I totally wouldn’t mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.”

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person’s feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It’s better to be honest.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you’re easier to identify.

Isn’t it so weird the day you wake up and you’re just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I’ve tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I’m just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

It’s more fun to think that there are other worlds.

I’d be a terrible secret agent. I can’t keep a secret and I’m not sneaky.

I can hide, and my husband’s just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

Guys are kind of retarded until they’re about 30.

I’m not really a first-move kind of gal.

I’m a talker. I love a good debate.

A lot of children don’t find forever homes because they’re on that special-needs list, even if it’s because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.

It’s easy to be taken advantage of if you’re not honest.

I’m not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

I’m not terribly sentimental.

When the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

He who conquers the mind, conquers the world.

Don’t mind me if I look at the ground today. My eyes are carrying the tears that kept the night awake.

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.