As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.

When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta .

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

Don't give up your dreams.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.