"When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me."

"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."

"I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was."

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history."

"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."