And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do

You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

This feeling of being in proximity to something that’s lost to you, it seems like my whole life right now.

My Potentials are 600, 000 Times More Than I Use Right Now_nickc

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?