It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

I know what I want, I know where I'm going and I'm happy with what I am.

I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.

I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.

Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.

From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.

I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

A joy as intense as pain

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.

Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.