My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

America is new to instrumental dance tracks on the radio, we were all so surprised "Animals" did so well on the radio.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.