"As a kid, I always thought the TV was a magic box in the corner of the room."

“Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.”

“We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.”

“I want you to know that I would do it all again. I will choose you every time.”

“Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.”

“Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.”

Source : "Expert: Africa Needs More than Foreign Aid". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 6, 2005.

“Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!”

“That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.”

Source : "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

“A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.”