Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

My inspiration is my hometown.

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind...

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

Not learning by doing, but learning by risking.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"