My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

Girls are stronger in numbers. So yes, I believe girls should stick together whenever possible.

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.

You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.