What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them.

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating.

Bread is a celebration.

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.