There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me more sensitive to cruelty. It made me feel like I was contributing to making the world better and that I was connected to everything around me. I felt like I was part of the whole by respecting every living thing rather than using it and destroying it by living unconsciously. Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.