I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Never doubt yourself!

However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

Investing isn’t risky; not being in control is risky.