Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

With positive mindset you can overcome any madness.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I'm yelling?

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.