If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe."

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.

When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved

People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

I'm always being inspired .

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.