I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I was not easy to cast, but also, I have never been typecast.

Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good I was actually being redirected to something better.

For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.

Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.

Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

It is impossible to think of a world in which America was not there in the honorable service of humanity.

Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.

I think it's important to talk to my sisters when I have a big decision to make.

The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.

Choose people who choose you.

I think America is a great place to grow up. It's a good lifestyle.

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.