I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

I like shopping, and I like to drive.

Do what you're passionate about.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

Everything is possible in this world so don't fear anything

There is no joy greater than the triumph of living.

Yesterday I fell completely off the face of the earthContemplating life, light and love in the darkness of the voidStrangely it was in the dark that I found meaning for the light

Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need.

One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.

They build too low who build beneath the skies.

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.