California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for The District and CSI: NY.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

I love going to work.

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

You become a champion by fighting one more round.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

I don't get star-struck at all.

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.