No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

Libraries are the future of reading.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

You could make me say it again, " he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.

We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.