What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Can't get away from your own self.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.