Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.

I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

A little danger adds spice to life.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God