I think all presidents should have teenage girls before they become presidents. If you can handle those hormones, you can handle anything.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place —

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.

We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

Love isn't a perfect state of caring.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.