How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.

My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

Peace and happiness are powerful weapons against the Egos.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

All men have life, but only few men know its value.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.