I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable, " and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Success is survival.

I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.... My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.