I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for The District and CSI: NY.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

I love going to work.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

To find prosperity in life, help others to prosper.

Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet.

Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.