We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.

Is it a coincidence that success follows those who hand out its credit to their parents or teachers. Ironically, the converse is true as well.

Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.

I kind of knew Cleveland was going to get the No. 1 pick. I think they rigged it. No, don't quote me on that.

The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.

When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.

I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.