What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine.

People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion.

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

The ultimate purpose of education is to improve the power of your imagination and to change your vision.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Not to love God is to be a puppet

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

A true pioneer who to me was like a father when I first came into the Dodger organization. He (Walter O'Malley) stood by me, and after my injury he stood by me and helped me through all of my crises.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.