Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.

And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."

The only single guy driving a minivan is a guy whose mother bought the van 16 years ago...

The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.

I guess that's the major difference between '80s-club Madonna and today's Madonna is she can get anyone she wants to show up in the studio for her.

Friday means popcorn and multiplexes, speaking of movies, and it is the multi that is the problem. So many movie screens. The struggle of what to put on them.

I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

What I'm trying to say, Brooke Overland, is that I want to be your nanny."That's seriously the most romantic thing I've ever heard in my life.

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?