You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

May the Creator ignite the spark of light within our soul.

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.

I think one of the big problems we have got - and police tell me this - is most police don't know how to deal with mental health problems. And so we need better mental health response.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.