I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

Giving is the only gift we should all endeavour to give the world each day.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

I think as human beings we contradict our feelings constantly, we make mistakes, but I think ultimately it comes down to actions to define how we feel about each other.

Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'