Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

Everything we do affects other people.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

To obey the principles of kingdom is to enjoy full and whole health

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.