I'm a sucker for sweetness. Intelligence, creativity and a sense of humor mean little to me if a person isn't also kind.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

What would you rather have, peace or freedom?

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.