What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.