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.

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've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

We must never forget our teachers, our lecturers and our mentors. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Plant more flowers than you pick

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to “get somewhere,” but having no idea of where they’re going.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.