I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

Now hear of the new judgement. You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.