I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.

Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.

I love scars on people. Scars to me are so attractive.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13).

Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.