I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

The more obstacles you encounter, the harder you must fight to meet your destiny. Never let adversity win. Never give up on yourself and the good you can bring to the world.

I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.

It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.