My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn't work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.

You don't really get to witness what athletes go through. Like, the sacrifices and stuff like that. It's by far the most amazing, beautiful thing.

People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.

Some say only the most trustworthy & loving go through trials we don't understand. I say that it's only them who didn't let it change who they were.

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!

I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well, ... so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagination. If I had the same imagination I won't sleep too!

She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.