They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

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.

Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

There are all kinds of things we can do in this world to make it a better place but we must start with ourselves.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.