The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.