Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Ideal humane leadership begins with a real demonstration of love, continues relating with acceptance of fellow humankind and consciously follows that through with every opportunity.

You should not measure your success by the amount of money you make or titles you have, instead measure it by how much value you create and the difference you make.

Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a man contented.

I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.

Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate!

I'm not ugly, but I'm far from pretty.

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.