On a very practical level, I've learned the importance of circulation socks for planes. I had this awful experience of getting off a flight to go to an event and my feet had swelled. Try getting into heels then! So you put on the socks for the flight, then you can wear whatever heels you want.

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.

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

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.