Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

There's so much more to life than what you're feeling now

Don’t be afraid to do something different Dare to be something more.

My favorite song depends on the day, what I’m going through, what I’m feeling.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.

I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.

Dream as big as you want because they come true everyday

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.

Function influence but does not dictate form

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.