"A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all."

"What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with."

"Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor."

"In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging."

"My life has been about big changes."

"I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier."

"I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right."

"I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling."

"Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting."

"Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed."

"When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears."

"Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids."

"There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together."

"I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much."

"By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop."

"Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life."

"I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth."

"At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next."

"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."

"Whenever I see grace, I’m moved."

"I been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here."

"A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet."

"There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die."

"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands"