You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet.

The New York Times, they lie. They lie like I've never seen anything.

The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile