It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Movies portray men as tough guys.