Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.

I'm not gonna be able to grow a beard. I've realized my limitations as a human.

Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

I've always been very aware of my own humanity. The limits of my humanity.

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at the moment.

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.