Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis.

If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.

The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.