But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

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.

There is one habit one should not grow out of -that is Being A Child at Heart .

In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.