If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

I have cellulite. So what?

Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.

The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.

Beauty was all I’d ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.)

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

My dancing days are past.