"Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us."

“Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable about the plastic model industry, so I can't answer that question. Unfortunately, I can't really make a statement on the plastic scale modeling kits, probably because I'd be eradicated from the industry if I made my true feelings known.”

“I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.”

“I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.

“The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.”

Source : "Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 23, 2001.

“Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.”

“Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.”

“When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. October 14, 1998.