I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

We all knew the great lesson of history

Imagination is the wonder of the wise.

There are no whole truths

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.