It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

I think lingerie plays a big part in how you carry yourself.

I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

If success is yet to become a reality in your life, you haven't exhausted your willpower.

Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.