Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

WFMU is so experimental that you can go hours without hearing something that resembles an actual song.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

I always thought that the way to believe more deeply was to surround myself with other Christians. After all, isn't that the traditional tool for religious socialization?

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.