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.

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.

If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.

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

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.

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

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