I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.

The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.