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

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.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.