The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

The act of war is the last option of a democracy.

You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

Most modern comedy is crap.

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

I only compare myself to myself.

You need to know who your ideal viewer is, and mine is a 14-year-old screaming female. And I'm thrilled about that. I am thrilled.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows

Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I don't mind watching plays once in a while, but as long as I don't have to be in them.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.

Your body knows how old you are, but if you keep on and you take care of yourself - you know, I go to kickboxing class every morning at 5 A.M. You know, try to do all the things to take care of the outside of your body, but you also should do - and have to do things that take care of the inside of your body.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non governmental organisations the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs prides scholars. Get rusticated now