I was never hit as a child. I don't believing in hitting, period.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.

Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.

I love scars on people. Scars to me are so attractive.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up.

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

Consistently sporadic and sporadically consistent. That's me.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

I do believe that everything can look beautiful if you look at it from outside. The closer you zoom in, most of us exhibit behaviour that is strange to someone from outside.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.