To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

Write what you’re scared about.

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.