I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I have cellulite. So what?

Spiritual wisdom manifests regardless of the level of education

May all men find grace.

You too could strive, thrive, and become as great or even greater than the people that you admire.

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.