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

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.

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.

Love is not everything

You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.

With confidence, he open the door of life presented to him.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.