[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.

I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my favorite fragrances to create a unique and different scent.

I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.

People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself.

When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

Ten years from now, I would like to see myself successful as a brand, like Jessica Simpson, with babies running around and a beautiful husband and my own reality show

Our songslive longer thanour kingdoms.

You can comfort me with your words and your gifts but it can not comfort me with the pain you gave

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.