Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Dennis Miller

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Keith Richards

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

Diana Ross

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

Louis Farrakhan

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

Muriel Spark

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

Chester Brown

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

Italo Calvino

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Brigitte Boisselier

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

Marcel Carne

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Elizabeth Edwards