"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a essential truth that every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam."

"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

"'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition."