Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

There can be no true friends without true enemies

Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.

Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

My administration is going to fix the system so it works fairly and justly for each and every American.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Santa Jr. I was a cop. Yes, I was officially Santa. But a younger Santa. He goes young, clean-shaven, to how we imagine Santa with all the white hair and beard and "Ho ho ho." Kind of funny.

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.