I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase inverting it playing it in different keys and times and all. But its really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

When it comes to free speech and participation in the democratic process, our laws should reflect the goal of making it easier for more citizens to engage.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

One of the chapters outlined in my book talks about the Iranian influence with Venezuela, these terror flights that go back and forth that we don't manifests on, and then nuclear material smuggled across our unsecure southwest border from Mexico into the United States.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Love at the lips was touch as sweet as I could bear.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to protect this country from a terror threat and to protect others from the terror threat that was Saddam Hussein. And nobody can deny that we are in a better place because Saddam Hussein is dead.

I couldn't care less about business.

Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping 'tea' isn't cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.