“I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I’m definitely one who has taken what people say to heart and let it eat away at me.”

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

At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo – slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

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

Still, it’s tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

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

Even though college has been hard, I don’t want to give up.

For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I’m kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.

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

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.

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.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

I can’t begin to describe the amount of crap I’ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

I had to lull mom and hank into believing i was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If i exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black love sucks tee, my plan would never get off the ground.