As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend.

Indignation is often the best defense.

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, once joked, “Richard, just don’t come to Washington.

While I am alive, I intend to live.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

I react emotionally to everything!

I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!