I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

We patiently endure every trouble.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

You're just full of awesome; did you know that?

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.