"Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted."

“I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.”

“I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.”

Source : "Chris Messina: Hollywood's Busiest Man and His Existential Questions". Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2013.

“Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.”

“I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.”

“Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

“There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After my next birthday, I will never again be the age I am right now. After midnight tonight, today will be part of history. Someday I'll be dying and I'll wish I'd done all the things I want to do now. Someday I'll be dead and I won't be able to do anything. But today, right now, I'm alive. And yet I'm writing nonsense on the back of my literature book. But I'm alive. And yet I'm just sitting here. But I'm alive.”

“To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.”

“Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!”