The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.