Women's place is where they can do the most good.

You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

I'm not very firey, but when I go, I go. I don't shout, I just get upset.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.