The business of the dead belongs to the living.

Vigilance enables wisdom and is the key to freewill

If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet—I choose heaven.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

Short films don't go too far.