Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

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.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?

I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.