When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

The best tourist is one without a camera.

My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

Don’t accept the world as it is. Dream of what the world could be - and then help make it happen.