My mother told me, 'Always do your best, ' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.

I want to be in Star Wars. That would be amazing.

I always remember loving Even Stevens - that show was so brilliant and funny and smart.

In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one!

I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

In order to know your ministry, you need to start serving and be under the leadership of someone, who already knows his ministry

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.