There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.

When you're going to spend a couple of weeks with people, you want to be with people that are enjoyable.

When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.

When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, "Oh, that makes sense." And it's easy.

If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

You never know how things are going to turn out.

Maybe someday, I'd find someone who'd prove he really loved me. Someone who'd hold me rather than let me fall. Someone who'd never lie to me.

Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us.

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

Where ever fear exists, courage can be found.

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.