It takes a village to raise a child.

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

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.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

You don't dream so that you can remember it. You dream to achieve it.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.