I don't really get recognized for Lost anymore or even the Disney movie I did because I was so much younger. I really looked so different. I've really grown a lot.

My personal style is preppy with an edge.

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

I graduated early from high school, but up until I graduated, I was playing high school hockey. I really enjoy hockey. That's definitely what I do on my days off, for sure.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

I definitely get star-struck over - not so much actors and celebrities because I see them around and I work with some of them - but it's more things I'm not involved in that I get star-struck about.

Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.

I really love dogs. When I see a dog, I go crazy, it's like, “Oh my God, come here, come here!”

The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

I think when we stop putting labels and start worrying more about the performance, that's when you're able to cross over and make yourself a household name and go everywhere.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.