the smile you give is the smile you get back.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

You & I are here but the wind is everywhere. Cast no words upon it you don’t wish followed back to you.

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.