Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.

Lots of people aren't self-promoters. You've just never heard of them.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Americans never quit.

I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.

I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.