The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

There is not a crime there is not a dodge there is not a trick there is not a swindle there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.

I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

I think of Paul Feig as the Scorsese of comedy. He's the best at what he does. I think people just trust everything that he's got to say.

Curiosity killed the cat but where human beings are concerned the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Israel's foreign policy has three points: the relationship with the U.S., the relationship with the U.S., and the relationship with the U.S.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

Wars are made to make debt.

The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.