Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Greatness has a fragrance. Get close to it and that fragrance will arouse your potential.

Your dreams will define your destiny.

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.

There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.