The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

The resources of the human mind are unlimited.

When you cure a blind person, he or she is not a statistic.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

You have that Frank Capra kind of side to it and the characters are really well drawn, so I think everybody tried their best to stay faithful to the script.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

You cannot be brave without fear.

I love talking about baserunning.