There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

I think in places like Pennsylvania, there's folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.

Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.