Never try to grow up too fast, but don't linger in the child you were

I'm as awkward as it gets, dude, but I embrace the awkward! I embrace the awkward and make everyone else feel awkward

You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

Everything kills you, you're dying everyday. You're either dying everyday or you're living every day and I'm living everyday.

In this world of hate there has to be a light Be that light and spread some love Maybe this day the youth can make a difference, No more hate!

I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.

I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.

Art is inside of you; express yourself.

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time the better I feel about the quality of my work.

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"