We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

I've been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don't want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don't, look better than you, so why bother?

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

You don't get points for leaving the chin open.

May our twilights mix togetherlike breath and breathlessness.

The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. Its a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

I truly wish I could sing.

Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.

I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

You cant judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

Peace of mind comes when we find comfort in solitude instead of lonlieness.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.