It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.

...and they all lived as happily as they allowed themselves to be.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.