We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold.

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

We are here for the sake of others

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.