And Quotes

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

America will be a country of generosity and warmth, but we will also be a country of law and order.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.