People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Eventually feels a lot different than actually.

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

We're not cameras, we're artists.

Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?

The world is a lie...not you and me.

You know, I was not an attractive child - I never had a cute face.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.