When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source

I am a great warrior.

When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.

Occasionally, I'll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it. It's hard not to. Usually, I wish I didn't.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love.