"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."

"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."

"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."

"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

"What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have."

"I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil."

"Whenever I don't have to wear makeup, it's a good day."

"I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure."

"I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen."

"French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar."

"I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day."

"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."

"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."

"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world."

"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."

"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile."

"I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time."

"I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs."

"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."

"I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious."

"Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now."

"There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women—that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser."

"My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role."

"I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live."

"I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up."

"I think women are afraid to say that they don't want children because they're going to get shunned. But I think that's changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don't have kids than those that do. And honestly? We don't need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet."

"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."

"Think people get scared that they’re not going to be able to do it perfectly - they’re going to be criticized - they’re going to be like, “Well, I’m not totally green.” Well, you know what? At this point we don’t care... Just a shade of green is enough right now. Move a little bit closer towards this. Because the more people start moving closer and closer to it, that’s something that collectively makes a difference."

"I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later."

"I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin."

"I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it."

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."