Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.

I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a friend, an ex. I'll always try to treat people the way I want to be treated.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.

There's just something about vampires that's sexy...It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time.

I literally pass out when I see blood.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.

You cannot force a dry well to yield water.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

Hate is love looking for itself everyplace but where love is.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.