As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.

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.

The manager comes to see all relationships with others by a strict utilitarian calculus and, insofar as he dares, breaks friendships and alliances accordingly.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Power came the way a child came -- with agony.

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.