I should never do anything pre-coffee. 'It was only a teeny fire, ' I told my uncle over the phone.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

I was trying to find a new home in the world.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.