If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

Don’t live a day without your spiritual nourishment

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.

For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

Those who work much do not work hard.

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.