Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

There's no need to bully; be kind to unwind!

I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.

Everyone always says that guys are intimidated by me, but I seriously doubt it. I mean, I'm five-foot-nothing!

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

Boys and girls can be friends. It's not weird. They're a person and they can be your best friend in the whole world.

When I was younger, I didn't want to be on TV.

I think you can go to school at any age.

I think I was made to live in New York. I love it.

I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.