I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

From loss breeds new beginnings

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.