What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

now, never mindthe boy who came out of that reading rooma new man, safe in the hope of what was to comein the summers of his life.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

The best choices will always be the most loving.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!