If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I'm pretty good with languages.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life.

And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.

Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

God has allowed me to communicate well with people who are younger than me.

There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.