My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

My hope is in God.

I look at this life as a puzzle without all the pieces in the box.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

If it has a use it isn't art.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.