A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

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

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

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

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.

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

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.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

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

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

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

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

I love talking about movies that mean something to me.

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

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

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

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

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

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

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

ADOLESCENCE ISN'T JUST ABOUT PROM OR WEARING SPARKLY DRESSES.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Opposition is true friendship.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.