I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Dont try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future. – Lea Michele
I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didnt have a nose job and money and if you werent thin, you werent cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasnt pretty enough to be on television. – Lea Michele
I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. Im a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that. – Lea Michele
I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat. – Lea Michele
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. – Jon Meacham