Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.

Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that positive boost.

The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.

I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.