Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .