But unlike Lachlan and Alison, my demons aren’t self-induced. My demons are fate’s way of telling me I won’t escape unscathed.

Belief isn’t something you can be reassured about. It’s something that has to come from inside.

It’s hard to see yourself changing until you’re so far from the person you used to be that it’s hard to remember ever being them at all.

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

Don’t you be so nice to me

There are always going to be some complications.

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.