Add your splash of color to the world.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

Ranking where people stand in your life and who they are to you helps you determine who you value the most and therefore where best to spend your time.

It allows you to be yourself, good and bad. And it's a two-way street: you give and take equally.

I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, "Hey, I need some friends!" *goes shopping, scours social media*

Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy.

Some call it growing up. I call it life, and in my experience, it doesn't necessarily get easier over the years. But the eternal struggle is beautiful, and I'm happy to persevere.

I think I've lived quite the unorthodox life so far, but you probably feels that way about yourself too. So much goes untold in our lives.

It's funny reading about how I behaved in the days before memories formed. So thanks for that input, Mom and Dad - wasn't so bad after all.

Every second seems like an eternity if someone you love is in trouble.

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´.

There's a big difference between how the Anglo-Saxon world views India, or viewed India, and the way Europe views India.

Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.