Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.