I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

Life is too short to be serious

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me!

I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young.

I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.

The show must go on all over the place or something.

Maybe it wasn't meant for me to stand on my feet

nothing is lifelesswhen the moon writes its screedon the silvern sand silence-From the poem:"The Universe In Blossom

Dear GIRLS your very own identity is more important than a marriage certificate.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.