Regret for not learning

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

You can't know how much a mother loves.

For the land's sake, Sarah Gale, let the earth turn on its axis, and don't be forever tryin' to stop it. There ain't but one law of progress, so far as I know, and that's by changes.

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith.