You can only do so much grunting and groaning and then you're done, you know?

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

You can only do so much grunting and groaning and then you're done, you know?

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

I don't want to be told what's for my good.

I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.

I love going to work.

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

I really want to drive a Porsche GT1 car - also a McLaren, if I could fit. I want to do LeMans badly. I want to do Spa, a European series with World SportsCars.

I really wanted to do 'Modern Family,' and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.'

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

Sometimes you're encouraged, and other times disappointed. It's a matter of going in and precluding all that with, 'This is what I do, not who I am.' I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I'm really here for. And that's the hardest thing, the biggest challenge.

The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.

What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.

When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

I never really wanted to be a star. I didnt like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still dont really like the attention of a birthday party.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV actually when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.

'Rent' opened up my heart, my senses. I was never the same. I hadn't been back in that place in the same way since. 'Hamilton' put me back in that place.

Be it a trip to the dentist, getting an injection or even coming home with a good report card, my reward always had to be a book. I didn't care much for anything else.

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down here, go into a quiet section here, explode here,' in a way that there's a flow and it doesn't feel like shuffle on an iPod.

You cant study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Youve got to give loyalty down if you want loyalty up.

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.