I just remember being stunned. We all looked at each other and thought, 'What good are we to this man?'?

This was a man who obviously was not altogether comfortable in the spotlight.

[The rapper-turned-actor borrows from Eastern thought to make his point.] The Chinese have a saying, ... 'Beware the man with the Buddha's mouth and the snake's heart.' This is the perfect example of that.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other...every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

I had recruited him to be my deputy. Sam had impressed me as an extraordinarily gifted lawyer. He was careful and rigorous. He didn't come across as an open and obvious conservative activist, like me, for example.

He's definitely a genius in terms of his intellectual capacities. It's awesome, it's really mind-boggling.