Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.

It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when you have problems.

You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

Writing is still on my slate.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few

Look around! People have faces with no smiles, as if they are carrying heavy baggage. Stop them! Give them a SMILE and see them Light up.

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.

I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.

Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

If you never quit, you're never beaten.