I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Empathy is the highest qualification one can obtain in order to genuinely love.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

A person can't help their birth.