People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Only be rebellious for good reasons.

I have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot.

True friends are like diamonds. They shine for you even on the darkest days.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.

Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters...on that aspect, no.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.