He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

It's when you're not looking for anything that something winds up coming along. It's about learning how to be just with yourself and that you don't need to be in a relationship. You don't need anyone to fulfill you.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.