The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.

The college recruiting process shouldn't be about how many schools have interest in you or how many offers you get, it should be about you finding the right school.

College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.

Social media has a way of revealing someone and can be very telling.

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

You've got to believe you can win. But I believe respect for the fact that you can lose is what you always have to keep in mind so that nothing suprises you.

If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

For me, after emotionally intense roles, I'd need to take a step back because then there's the promoting of the film which is another job in itself.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.