It's better when they laugh, isn't it?

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

It's better when they laugh, isn't it?

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

Talented people are restless at their core.

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

You can't do the same thing every day with the horse. Because they then know the thing inside out, and they're leading you, not the other way round. You don't want them to take over. You have to be able to ride the movements and set the movements up; you don't want them starting before you are ready.

If our lives are already written, it would take a courageous man to change the script.

I know there's a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don't know where it's coming from and how to correctly stop it.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

If you're an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I'd use to try to get into this country is the refugee program.

My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse.

Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.