You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans

You need something that no one else is using. And something that is clean enough to play around audiences.

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.

Peace, love, empathy

A man who wears a fragrant flower on his collar spreads a perfume wherever he goes. (141)

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

I really like acting in English.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.