Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.