At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.

I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.