“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”

“We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.”

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

“Nobody is better than you and remember, you are better than nobody.”

“The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you.”