This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.