"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older."

“Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.”

“For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold . . . there is a peace about death that soothes me.”

“I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

Source : "Hamas rejects Abbas unity pledge". Mahmoud Abbas' address to the UN General Assembly, news.bbc.co.uk. September 21, 2006.

“I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.”

“Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.”

“I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.”

“But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.22