I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

I don't know any teenager with a positive attitude.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

My beauty is dark chocolate and it's delicious and it's sweet.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.

Christians are the carriers of truth that the whole world needs

Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.

I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk.

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.