“It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.”

“...when you're on your pilgrimage, you don't even need to know where you're going. You just have to know when you're off your path.”

“You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.”

“America is a country with a First Amendment, and you're allowed to publish just about anything you want, as long as it's not real secret information. Of course, nobody really does that except for, you know, you guys in the media.”

“You just don’t know anything about anything. You’re a journalist. Would you like to compare your résumé to mine?”

“The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.”

“I want you to admit just once what you feel
for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even
a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry
for anything.”

“If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure.”

“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”

“To all the people out there, you know just live out your dreams, if you dream something, just pursue it and do it because if you can put your mind to it you can do basically anything and everything you want to. I mean look at me, I came from a country that was falling apart because of communism and escaping to America, not knowing the language and then not learning it from beginning, and overcoming that and where I am now, you know it just shows you that if you put your mind to it you can do anything you want to.”