Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.