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.

I come from television where I feel like I'm in people's living rooms every day so it's not crazy for me to think that like a ten year old would know, but, I don't know.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I don't focus outside of myself to my guides. I always focus inside.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

If I'm traveling, I'll pack socks in my bag - really cute furry ones.

If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.