I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?

I knew I loved it because I could take the failures. I was like a professional fighter - they're beat 20 times in a row and they just want that one win.

I'm the best at being lucky.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.