But I do care. I hate myself for it, but I can’t fight this desperate need to try. Try to fit in. Try to make this school experience different than all the previous ones.

Fate is for the weak--those people who don't have enough power or will to shape life into what they need it to be.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

Hate is the wrath of the weak.

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

There is so much pressure on me to surfboard now

You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.