Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.

When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.

Instead of blue skies and sunshine, there are grey clouds and endless rain that seeps into your bones, your soul.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.