I guess I could have a couple of secrets.

Actually, I was lucky enough; I was a heavyweight, so making weight for me was never that much of a problem in high school. Now, it would just be near impossible, because I'm a little heavier.

Sometimes you just have to trust people.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

A girl's got to have a few secrets.

Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.

Sometimes it's good to be not so popular.

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.

Just because someone's older and you think they're cooler doesn't mean you should abandon your real friends.

If you think that climate change and global warming are not going to affect you, then you are easily misled.

We must remain calm as parents and try not to lose control of ourselves, when we become parents. For how can we expect our kids to control themselves if we can’t do it? That seems unfair.

Planning of the next day’s activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.

Only those who live forever can act like there's time to waste.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.

All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.