I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

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.

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue.

In darkness, be your own light.

…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.