If you're in a diabetic or prediabetic state, it's good to have medication to go on for a period of time. But simply by making the changes - get your sleep, 35 grams of fiber and a half-hour walk - your cholesterol will come down, your sugar will come down, and your blood pressure will come down. Only the minority of people can't control it.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.