If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

(…) maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing.

A box sits empty, wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.

You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you're still the one I want for life.

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.