I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

The grass is not only greener on the side you water but also on the side you prevent preys from feeding on. Learn to keep out the preys and see your lawn flourish.

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

I don't think anyone here supports the legislation. But I'd like to hear you at least say that you don't support spanking by any parent, because you choose not to do it. You must think it's wrong.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

Go to the moon, that's my dream.

I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers