I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

I've never had a teenage rebellion, I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

The real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.