If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

It takes a village to raise a child.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Every child needs a champion.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

I had such a distaste for '70s clothing. So, the '90s were a rough period for me because I got made fun of for wearing what they used to call "pegged pants." Now they call them "skinny jeans."

People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends innit. If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it right?

Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations.