I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.

I would never want to be a trend-spotter, in any field. I just think I would be bad at it. I have very limited range, in terms of the tone of the show, that I'm capable of making.

It's hard enough to do a good show, but it seems like not enough to want to do that.

You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.

Chance is your godThough you're falling free you will land hard

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

[The Democrats'] vision for the future: socialized medicine and Washington-run health care.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.