Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Cast your anxious thoughts upon the Lord. He waits to hear you speak!

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

My motto is to go wild on the accessories - the belts, the hair clips, the jewelery.

I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

They seem to be in total, if not complete control

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.