My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

Where there is love there is life.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Stability is not the way of the world.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.