Be wise enough to forgive

What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps

Dance with the clouds.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.