I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

I've always looked older.

I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.

Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

Miracles do happen in every human life.