I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Illuminate the wonderful light within you.

In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly's hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can't have both.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

I've gotten to play some pretty intense characters and I tend to think it's therapeutic for me.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.