I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

Faults are soon copied.

I love how summer just wraps it’s arms around you like a warm blanket.

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

No, Not even remotely...Because I don't care. I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me, I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.