I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

The beauty of life is in our dream . When our actions transform our dream to a reality we become a success.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

He's probably the hardest-working guy I've been around who has great ability. Overachievers work hard because they have to. Peyton has rare talent, but chooses to push himself like he doesn't.