She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

You have many gifts

Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

I really like visiting military bases.

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him