I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.

Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain you caused them is that same pain you feel now.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

The size of a plane does not change the weather but it will get you above it. The size of your faith may not change your situation but it will get you over it.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

The sun gave us our eyes to see the beauty of nature, his creation, through his light.

People waste life by wasting time.

I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from "Hello" and other times it takes a few weeks to develop that.