I unfortunately don't have a stage name, I don't have a celebrity that I can hide behind, so every time I show my ID at an airport person or get carded at a bar, it's always interesting.

Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.

I really care about where things are going. I care about what people are feeling and I like to ask the question why.

I been blessed with an opportunity, I'm extremely appreciative of it, but if I'm not enjoying it then I messed up, real bad.

I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable.

I think that's the most important thing-two things really, have fun and be yourself.

Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you.

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure.

I don't know how many times we have to be reminded that life is extremely short.

Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.