I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

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.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.

Embrace your responsibility to dream big.

You think this is a walk in the park, that it’s all beauty pageants and tea parties? Come on girl, wake up! This is survival at its most intense.

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

Learning is a consequence of thinking.

Responsibility prevents crimes.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

I got country music in me.