When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for The District and CSI: NY.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

I love going to work.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart; you may enter that a way!

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change