I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

They call it luck. But I call it putting in the right amount of work on the right plan.

Just because you don't know how to do something now does not mean you can't learn how to do it later.

You are free because I am freePetra HermansSeptember 26, 2016

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.