I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

Reading is my breath.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Few seem to be able to eat a turkey leg at Disneyland without splattering tsunami scale grease, so grab plenty of napkins or wear a bib, tablecloth or scuba suit.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".