Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

What I learned on my own I still remember

everything happening for a reason like your reading for my words which make you know that

Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Many a true word is spoken in jest

The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.