At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.

And if you can't trust an ancient talking tree, what was the point of having one?

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Life is full of opportunities to feel exactly the way you want to feel.

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.