I want to help with bullying because there are girls who can't just up and homeschool and focus on their career.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Memories come back... the whole beginng comes out with a new end.

And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.