You are the owner and keeper of your word. Distribute them wisely.

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a life, like no other.

Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in " and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".

I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

I always wanted to go into acting.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.