Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

Point shoes are torture devices.