When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

Because I lay with him… I’ve caught a glimpse of heaven. Or I understand what I need. Or I have the courage to be myself.

Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future

On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery.

My father used to say: Son if you are not bright you've got to be methodical (defusing argument when challenged and proved right)

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God.

Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!