I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult

On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.