I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

You leaders, where do you lead your people to? Do you sow in them the seed of possession?

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it.

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.

He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.

We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

What is your peace all about? What is your comfort all about? Where do you get your love? Where do you get your talents? And I can turn to them and say without blinking, ‘Jesus Christ.’