“Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.”

Have the passion and the magic will happen

The one thing I’m absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can’t choose which I prefer.

Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.

I don’t know who Little Richard is.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I’m not each day.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

I usually go make-up free when I’m not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I’m girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara.

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

I don’t need to apologize for my behavior you need to apologize for not understanding.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I’m not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty – I read a lot, I try to learn.

Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas.

My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.

These ‘Sports Illustrated’ people, they know how to hold a secret.

Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He’s very classy.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward…once I said, ‘Yes, that’s me, that’s what I am,’ I was able to work with it.

If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.