Actors never discuss future plans.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Words are the small change of thought.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and...Reproduction

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.