It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.

Everyone fears rejection.

This guy [Tim Kaine] is every bit as radical as Barack Obama is. Every bit.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

Kids in different countries know my movies by heart because they've seen them so many times. And wonderful returns never stop.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.