I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

We may run into many downfalls in life, but with a mighty God on our side those downfalls have already been defeated.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.

It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.