I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

I love wandering. It's liberating to throw away the map and explore uncharted galleries. You'll nearly always stumble into something immensely interesting that way.

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in.

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Sometimes that's the hardest thing is to not do anything, but just to trust what's on the page.

Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.