Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, " she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be.

I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

I've been a free man.