Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there… she’s in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College… and she was delivering a speech there.

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he’s running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, ‘Four more vowels, four more vowels.’

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that’s crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

I’ve never done Botox in my life. But I’ve probably tried everything else under the sun.

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I’d won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing...

It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take...

The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and...

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and...

Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

I don’t go out without make up. I’m a woman, you know.

But we’re not supposed to talk anything besides football.

Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the...

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that...

Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for ‘I’m So Tired,’ which I have...

We are all experts in our own little niches.

I am a lucky, lucky person.

I don’t think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn’t get the sounds out always due to technical limitations – now I can pretty...

Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.

Because of you, I’m running out of reasons to cry.

You know, if you don’t do nothin, you don’t do nothin.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

But you come to a point in your life when you can’t pull the trigger anymore.

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh.

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that’s good or bad for the game, and if there aren’t any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.

Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, ‘If I can’t run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I’m out of here.’

My wife and I, we like to ride where there’s not much traffic.

Love is so confusing – you tell a girl she looks great and what’s the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, ‘Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you’re very busy,’ and usually, they will.

Don’t minimize the importance of luck in determining life’s course.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to...

I have no doubt that there are great people about though… the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.