The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. Im a financial success!

I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment of this.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."