To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.

When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.