It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confi….

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites..

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create….

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important..

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid….

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children..

You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of door….

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives..

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario..

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have..

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models..

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tr….

You need to make relationships to help you..

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your ….

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization….

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that st….

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. An….

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been ….

There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each other, Stay true to the story, w….

I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you d….

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's no….