“I’m now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.”

I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I’m a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I’m betraying myself and my children.

I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that’s what I’ve learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

In my heart I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.

You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I try never to be governed by fear; that’s how I choose things.

You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That’s where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

I’d like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I’m willing to go through a lot.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I love Tony Jaa. He’s one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

It is when faced with adversity that we get to know what we are made up of, what we are capable of doing, and who we truly are.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

I don’t care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.