My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

Osama bin Laden's death has been in the news all day. Leftish stations are going, 'President Obama saves the world.' Stations on the right are going, 'Obama kills fellow Muslim.'

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

I have no political aspirations. Thats it.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

To hell with facts! We need stories.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.