The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.

If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.

Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, "You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God."

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

Seen too much, it's so hard for me to let new people in

I don't really like Nirvana that much. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.