If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

I found my voice in books.

Logic will get you from A to Z

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

I reboot [my Windows PC] every night.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

So, Magellan, where are we going? (Danger) Away. I’m open to any location, so long as it doesn’t involve returning to your house while Wart-Head is there.