To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

I shouldn't have spoken like that.''People do, sometimes. People who've had less to contend with than you. We're not always in full control of our actions.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

What you focus on expands.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.

The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.