You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture

I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.

The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled).

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

God is more lasting than the white man.

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.