Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald, and peridot pieces over the years, and we always seem to be on the lookout.

I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

FaceTime is a life saver for relationships and for family.

I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.

I'm pretty vocal about my healthy lifestyle choices. I do try to eat organic, high protein and gluten free.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

I cook a lot. I'm always experimenting. I'm not much of a recipe follower.

Love, compassion, and patience bring peace.

Hope is a gracious expectation.

What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth