Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Out there is nothing but possibilities.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

Practical wisdom, " Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.