I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

Do not weep for me.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

A passage of scripture is written on every cliff.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

You're gonna know, if I have beef with somebody, then one of us is just falling out.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

I'm not a typical public school boy.

Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow it loses today.

I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.

I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

I have two children who are daughters, so female issues have always registered high on my scale of awareness.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can't see them in the supermarket or wherever. It's a terrible, terrible moment... the most unimaginable horror.

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

I definitely want to play someone who's inspired me. I would love to play Aaliyah; it would be personal because I love her so much.