I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

The farther you venture into the forest the more valuable the fruit.

Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it first has to rise like a new dawn in front of the people.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.