Treat your body like you would treat a friend.

I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.

I am so girly. I love dresses.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.

I dreamed really big when I was little.

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

It's nice to have a boyfriend, but it's even nicer to own your house when you're 21.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.

I don't write fantasy

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Hasten slowly and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.