Five inches of snow in five inch heels, you can't look sexy and you can't look like you know what you're doing because you're fall.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

Don’t let haters get me off my grind. Keep my head up, I know I’ll be fine. Keep fighting until I get there. When I’m down and I feel like giving up I whip my hair back and forth.

Yoga has helped me become more in tune and respectful of not just my body but my soul.