I consider myself a novice film actor.

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.

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

Every sacred moment is made that way by sacrifice.

I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew even­tually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

Inspiration is nothing without work.