I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

There aren't a lot of great parts out there that are interesting for people in my category.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge