"I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use."

"I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care."

"I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means."

"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."

"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration."

"It is a radiant truth that to love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach."

"My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds."

"I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity."