It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

She ran straight into Leo’s open arms, unable to stop the tears from falling, feeling at last defended, like a single musical note that had finally found the symphony to which it belonged.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

We should just thank each other for our time. For the rest of our lives.