The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

There's no greater model, in my view, than Jesus Christ.

Oh, America! I could never leave you! You're like my dog, dumb as a post but you make me laugh!

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

I mean, maybe one day we will live in a more optimum world where terrorists come in every color of the rainbow. But the truth is, now they don't. I mean, the people who are trying to get us are young Muslim men, period.