“You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.”

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

I’ve wanted one thing for me whole life and I’m not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

You can stay the same person you’ve always been even if everything around you changes.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change.

People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.

Delicate is a song that was written about such a vulnerable time in my life

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairy tale image of the world doesn’t match the reality.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both.

My gut is telling me that if you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

My conversations with my mom have always been and will always be some of my favorite memories.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.

Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the future mutation of mankind; especially the most urgent ones, and the ones I perceived, and in a manner that would not upset their fragile sentiments.

Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating critical, lucrative business opportunities, since it has a high concentration of business decision makers.

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.