I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

Everything we do affects other people.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Coincidentally, the words RELIGION and BULLSHIT both have eight letters.

Hardships scorch as sun burns each entity to glow it golden.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to be so finely tuned.