The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.