You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Alone, we are great, but together, we are better.

Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both.

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.