Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for The District and CSI: NY.

I love going to work.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.