Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.

Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.

But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.

You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

Confidence is what makes you stand out.

I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.

I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

I'm pain in the spoken form; This new strain came from where hope is gone.

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.