To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.

Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.

Successful people inspire me, and I don't mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams.

To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless.

As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."

One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things.

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.

Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.

I am fortunate to have a lot of love in my life. I love my family, I love my dog, I love my close friends, and I absolutely love my incredible girlfriend.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

It is easy to write when you don't know how.

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them - not in the other, but in themselves.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.

I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.