We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

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.

Learn, learn.

Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.

What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old.

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.