Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

I've been very lucky - I've worked consistently, and I haven't had to kiss a lot of people on stage.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

Catholics often choose Good Friday which is a day of fast to strengthen their faith to repent for their wrongdoings and to forgive those who have wronged them.

It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.

It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.