We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

In like a dimwit, out like a light.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Every burden is a blessing.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for 'Watch The Throne'.

It is just that we should be grateful not only to those with whose views we may agree but also to those who have expressed more superficial views for these also contributed something by developing before us the powers of thought.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated.

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."

I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.

One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.

I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity - there's nothing hateful about our members at all.

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

I have grown used to the focus on my clothes and my shoes.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.