If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

I don't even sing in the shower.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

I'm not good at multi-tasking.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.