I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.

'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president?

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

A Christmas tree the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.

We come from a sensory-overload culture, and so we wonder if one guy on drums and one guy dancing around is enough. Adding guys was something we always were curious about. We decided for this run specifically to stay a two-piece. In the future, we definitely could add members.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell... I love them.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?