I went to public school up until junior high.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.

People have never lost what they think they have.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

It's very hard for Europe, the US and Russia to have much influence on the growing problems elsewhere in the world unless we have our own backyard in a more stable and cooperative atmosphere.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.