I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.