If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

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.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

Hoes want attention, women want respect.

Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.

No one ever died from an open mind.

For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.