I'm a talker. I don't bottle things up. I always call my mum or a close girlfriend and try to talk things out.

I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates early before the world gets hectic, keeps me calm.

You can never, ever predict the curve balls it throws you. So just roll with it, and don't forget to enjoy the moment and soak it up. Don't just Instagram it.

New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.

Be kinder. Kindness is underrated!

Family is everything.

I get to be creative and to write: two of my favorite things.

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

Hearts aren’t as smart as heads. Ain’t that the truth?

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.

Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you.

I can stand out the war with any man.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.