As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive...

The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.

There are always two sides to a story.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.

Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.