I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.

At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys.

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.