I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.