Literally, these [heels] slow you down.

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.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.