When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Miguel de Cervantes

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Randy Harrison

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Sting

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

Tony Kushner

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Socrates

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

Nassim Taleb

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Carl Gustav Jung

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Terry Pratchett

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Laurence J. Peter

Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With fitness, I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there.

Shay Mitchell

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce