I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

My father told me, "Don't do anything that would bring shame to the family." I was always mindful of that. When I told him I wanted to pursue a career as an actor, my father said, "Look at what you see on television at the movies, is that what you want to be doing? Do you want to make a life out of that?" And I said, "Daddy, I'm going to change it".

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.