I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

Adolph Green

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

King Hussein I

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Stephen King

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10

Bible

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am a thing of beauty.

Frank Sinatra

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

Angie Dickinson

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Will

In the broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,Enclosed and safe within its central heart,Nestles the seed perfection.

Walt Whitman, Song of the Univer

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Donald Rumsfeld

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

Martin Luther King Jr.