Hope was other people, no matter what the philosophers said. And this was a time that needed hope.

Hope is something God gives us. Hope is...Hope is a bright light on a dark night. If your hope is guiding you into this shore, then this is where you should drop your anchor.

Maybe it was simply human nature to only love a thing after losing it. Maybe they should all lose more things so they can appreciate what they had.

It's been a long time since I felt something like hope. Don't ask me to give it up for Netflix and a Prius.

You’re white. You’re straight. You’re well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.

The heavenly Father is a hope to the hopeless.

To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.