If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.

Before I disappear behind the door, I stop and turn around to look at him.

i want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of doritos at a party

Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.