Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.