In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

Everything we do affects other people.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.

Loneliness is the world of self-discovery where undiscovered you buds.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.

Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them. Be with them. Hug your children; You never know when it will be the last time.