Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, " her grandfather remarked.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery...

And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.

I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

Do it yourself. Keep going. Many people have said these things to me many times and both are good pieces of advice. I like getting on with things.

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.