[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

You can't blame me for who I am.

If you have something to say about somebody, look the person in the eye and say it.