The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

When you fall in love with someone's personality everything about them becomes beautiful.

I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing.

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.