I've learned to not care. There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

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 think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

I'm not a big shorts person. Personally, I hate to see men's legs on the golf course.

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

I'm not going to pay this bill. I don't owe you any money. You do what you got to do!

I like to do projects that are off-the-wall and on top-of-the-wall.

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.