“I’ve just got to maintain my passion for what I do.”

If you have done the very best you can. worrying won’t make it any better. if you want to be successful, respect one rule.

Everybody has gone through something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.

My mother is a walking miracle.

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right upon which all our civil liberties rest.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we’ve done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Some people don’t get it when I’m being sarcastic.

I don’t see why I can’t have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It’s crazy.

I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?

I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn’t mean I’m gay.

Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.

It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

I’ve been in the public eye for about 15 or 16 years and I’m very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It’s not just something that will always be there.

I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person’s opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.