A relationship should not suppress our adventure or suppress the speed with which we learn the lessons that are there for us to learn.

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.