I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it.

For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development.

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

People want to see this America, this real America.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

Women are strange and incomprehensible a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment.

My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.

I may never get back to the track. The problem was that I was dominating my event, and the winning became slightly boring. I wanted new challenges, and I've got that on the road.

We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

Its been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation no strings attached.

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist.

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke up and brushed my teeth, I looked in the mirror and I did not see a tall, African-American, skinny man. So let's make it clear that my priorities are North Dakota priorities.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'

I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets.

The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'

When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.