The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.