Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

I think everyone should follow their instincts, and go with what they feel, and follow their heart.

If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.

Achieving a goal requires endurance and sacrifices beyond limitations.

It is worthless and senseless to seek help in Egypt, because true help comes only from theLord, Who created heaven and earth.

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.

If I fall if I die know I lived it to the fullest, if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.