When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

Hello, I must be going.

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.