I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

I am good enough, attractive enough, important enough just as I am. I do not have to fix, help, or caretake others to earn their love.

Falling in love is like seeing the ocean for the very first time, when all of your life you've been stepping in puddles.

Eat good food, keep moving, and let your body take care of the rest.

What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her or himself, the words were able to connect to a reader's heart.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.