Get in front of a mirror, know your body.

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

Don't believe everything you read.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

I still love red velvet cake.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

Don't be handcuffed by bad habits when you hold the key to unlock the greatness inside of you.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

When you make a deliberate effort to keep your thoughts positive, and authentically feel that way, more positive outcomes are inevitable.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

So will you meet me?” “Yeah. Sure. Where.” “Montrag’s safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.

This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.