The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat...

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our...

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his...

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's...

I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the...

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader...

Why would people want to take advice from a group of people who pretend to be other people for a living?

When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

I don't just play for myself. I play for everybody who was behind me.

I just save my money, man. I don't even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon' be broke later on. I be savin', I be chillin'. It feels good to know I got...

When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.

I wouldn't call it a Breitbart audience. I would call it America.

I have learned how to take votes where I had to hold my nose because I had to compromise - something that you learn to do, especially when you have been in the minority.

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.

When I started playing, my mom said there were three players she wanted me to watch - Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is...

I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.