I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

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.

As you start and end your day, say THANK YOU for every little things in your life. And you will come to realize how blessed you truly are.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.