Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast―absence itself―as important as the light and marble, for one cannot exist without the other.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

Banning someone for wanting to ban others is an inappropriate response.

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.