What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

I go to class every day with the future Facebook and Twitter and Google employees, the future innovators and entrepreneurs who might have the next big thing. Knowing that and seeing their success and work ethic makes you want to be successful. It impresses me every day. It humbles me, too.

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.