I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.

If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

Don’t do that? This is your sage advice?”“Yeah.” He burped and blew it out the side of his mouth. “Sorry, the burritos we had for lunch are kinda comin’ back on me.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

I love domestic life.

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.