New knowledge enhances an ever increasing sense of our own ignorance. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. Feynman called it 'the expanding frontier of ignorance'.

Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them, because they're so real and so tangible.

Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy and justice.

With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.