Overlooked quotes

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.