All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable.

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

Gen. Mattis is a warrior. What I appreciate about Gen. Mattis is he understands the principle that if you go to war, you go to war to win.

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup. Whenever you're wrong, admit it. Whenever you're right, shut up.

Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

I don't really strain my voice.

I dont have to look up my family tree because I know that Im the sap.

We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.