When he was a little kid, he was a fat, spoiled kid. I can tell the type.

When he was a little kid, he was a fat, spoiled kid. I can tell the type.

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.

I believe all of my talents come from the Lord. All of my talents are God-given - that's how I was able to write music without any professional musical training.

I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.

I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy.

I was turning down cigarette campaigns before it became fashionable. I wouldn't let CBS Radio sell 'The Stan Freberg Show' to R.J. Reynolds and American Tobacco, which had sponsored Jack Benny, the man I replaced.

If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else?... We're all consumers... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.

You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

A woman is more than the sum of her parts.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young family, I had to train at unusual hours. A few times, I ran home from my lab late at night, which was 20 kilometers out of town.

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

The best headlines are those that appeal to the readers self interest that is headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something they want and get from you.

I have a great agency! It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

The idea of service leads to community.