I'm not a mediator or a negotiator. I don't want to be one.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now dawning upon the world the magnitude of the action that the Soviets undertook in invading Afghanistan.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.