Most Americans cannot save more than $6,000 a year from depreciating real estate. That's all they can write off against their salary or business profits.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.

Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

Don't live like there's no tomorrow because tomorrow always comes.

Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.