I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Voltaire

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Jimmy Buffett

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Ayn Rand

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

John Masefield

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

G. K. Chesterton

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Candace Parker

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Thomas S. Monson

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

Robert Collier

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

Stephen King

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg