A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.

Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level.

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.