The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.

As [the New York Times] winds down its years and is becoming more and more problematic, it's gotten more and more vicious, more and more vile.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.