You got beat up. Bones and bruises heal. Those girls didn't win because they didn't do what they wanted. They wanted to break you. I was already broken."You're not broken at all.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

My kids have never known me not working on The Bachelor. But they've lived in Paris and Italy and been to Hawaii and Bora-Bora with me, and it's incredible to me that they've had these experiences.

I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all

My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.