[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

It truly is the power that you have deep within yourself that gives you the strength to pursue your dreams.

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am.

Think before you speak. Think before you judge. Think before you think you have a person all figured out.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

I really think everything happens for a reason.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

When sadness knows the reason of tears, heart prepares to carry the ache for years

Poetry listens to me when I am silent and understands me when no one else seems to be able to.

...whatever you do, you’ll never kill my love. I love you! It’s only now that I realize I can’t imagine my life without you

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.

I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.