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.”

“Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable.”

“If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.”

“Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”

“But whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.”

“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.”

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”

“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”