Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

Family is more important than anything.

Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

These young people are going to change the world.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Come meet my dog.""What's the dog's name?""Justice.""Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.

Educate yourself to the highest degree.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.

There are no problems, only solutions.

The highest truth cannot be put into words.