I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots

You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.