I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers we get Aquatruck.

The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.