Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

I would have run awayInto the forestTo live in a nestMade of dreamsAnd green leaves

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

It's incredible to be young and live here and not have to clean up your dorm room.

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.