Quotes

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

My mother convinced me that I could do whatever I wanted to do in life. She gave me the courage, and in fact, the heartfelt belief in myself that enabled me to become what I wanted to be: a professional actor.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

I don't write about my life in my column.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

When you live the life of a comedian, it's such a state of arrested development. I can't deal with anything very maturely. I'm still really bad at paying bills or doing anything that would be considered semi-adult. I'm really bad at it. It's weird I can create and run a TV show, but I can't pay my phone bill.

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.

When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.

I have always been incredibly grateful for my time in the Bachelor world, and while overall I have no regrets, my time on the show hasn't come without its hardships. But I have always been a risk taker and have always believed the greatest things in life often come with the greatest risks.

It is tragic to lose someone close, but having that reminder to take advantage of every opportunity that life gives you.

My parents are the biggest role models in my life, and if I find a woman that I can have a love like they have for one another, I'd be the luckiest man in the world.

Zero G is such a surreal experience, and something that is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

I wanted said yes to 'The Bachelor' for the chance of finding love and to find someone I could spend the rest of my life with.

Sometimes no matter how strong your imagination is and how many days you spend picturing a life with a woman, she turns out to be so amazing that only being there with her in the moment, holding her in your arms, can you find the truth in your heart.

I'm a big believer in transparency in any type of a relationship and in life.

When you're going to consider spending the rest of your life with someone, you need to have some pretty transparent conversations.

I can strongly say with conviction that as far as being on a TV show that documents my love life of any kind, I'm done with.

I never thought I'd go back on 'Paradise' or 'The Bachelorette' or 'The Bachelor,' but I think I have learned in life that it is best to sit back and let things come your way, and take each situation on its own.

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I'm not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.