I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

Acting is kind of brutal.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.