You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.