I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.

I do not, " I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.

I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.

The War That Will End War.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.

What you do to benefit the lives of others will ultimately also benefit you.