To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

I love pain. Love pain.

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

it's never been a plan to have this or that. It's just where I am in my life, at that time, and where my path is going to go.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.

Feel yourself climbing the mountain.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future!

As we unfold spiritually, the reality of our inner life enters new dimensions and we must change with it.

But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.