I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

My name is Celaena Sardothien,' she whispered, 'and I will not be afraid.

I never wanted to be a martyr—even for love. I don’t want to die for love. I want to live for it.

This is the only truth in the world that was necessary yesterday, is necessary today, and will continue to be necessary tomorrow: be conscious of now.

Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity.

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.

The Philosopher's Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!

My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.