If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

You do not control everything, nor does everything control you. You are not entirely at the hands of your environment, nor is it entirely at the hands of you.

You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement.

Only if you follow the realism of science rather than the Hollywood fantasy of romance, will you achieve True Love

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

You get into feeling like you are in a zone. You can't be stopped. It's a good feeling but it never lasts.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.