Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

Love is the light of our soul which lets us see the beauty of this world.

Success is a mindset just as failure is, but they can never coexist in the same mind.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.